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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VII
NOAA - NHC ^ | 28 August 2005 | NOAA - NHC

Posted on 08/28/2005 8:10:23 PM PDT by NautiNurse

Extremely dangerous Hurricane Katrina is bearing down on the North Central Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans metro area. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin conceded that as many as 100,000 inner-city residents didn't have the means to leave and an untold number of tourists were stranded by the closing of the airport. At this hour, people are still filing into the Superdome after security screening for weapons and contraband. National Guard have brought in 360,000 MRE (meals ready to eat) to feed the estimated 30,000 storm refugees in the Superdome.

The following links are self-updating:

Public Advisory Currently published every 3 hours 5A, 8A, 11A, 2P, etc. ET
NHC Discussion Published every six hours 6A, 11A, 6P, 11P
Three Day Forecast Track
Five Day Forecast Track
Navy Storm Track
Katrina Track Forecast Archive Nice loop of each NHC forecast track for both three and five day
Forecast Models
Alternate Hurricane Models via Skeetobite
Bouy Data Louisiana/Mississippi

Buoy Data Florida

Images:


New Orleans/Baton Rouge Experimental Radar Subject to delays and outages - and well worth the wait

Mobile Long Range Radar Loop

New Orleans/Baton Rouge Radar

Ft. Polk, LA Long Range Radar Loop

Northwest Florida Long Range Radar

Storm Floater IR Loop
Storm Floater Still & Loop Options
Color Enhanced IR Loop

Other Resources:


Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
Katrina Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm 12


Hurricane Wind Risk Very informative tables showing inland wind potential by hurricane strength and forward motion
Central Florida Hurricane Center
New Orleans Web Cams Loads of web cam sites here. The sites have been very slow due to high traffic
New Orleans Music Online Couldn't resist--love that jazz
Golden Triangle Weather Page Nice Beaumont weather site with lots of tracks and graphics
Hurricane City
Crown Weather Tropical Website Offers a variety of storm info, with some nice track graphics

Live streaming:

Fully-linked version of the live feeds (just in case a few people don't want to first open up WMP to cut-and-paste) -

WWL-TV/DT New Orleans (WMP) - mms://beloint.wm.llnwd.net/beloint_wwltv
WVTM-TV/DT Birmingham (WMP) - mms://a1256.l1289835255.c12898.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/

1256/12898/v0001/reflector:35255
WDSU-TV/DT New Orleans (WMP) - http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38202.asx
Hurricane City (Real Player) - http://hurricanecity.com/live.ram
ABCNews Now (Real Player) - http://reallive.stream.aol.com/ramgen/redundant/abc/now_hi.rm
WKRG-TV/DT

Mobile (WMP) - mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast

.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95518 WDSU-TV/DT New Orleans via WESH-TV/DT Orlando - http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38843.asx

Category Wind Speed Barometric Pressure Storm Surge Damage Potential
Tropical
Depression
< 39 mph
< 34 kts
    Minimal
Tropical
Storm
39 - 73 mph
34 - 63 kts
    Minimal
Hurricane 1
(Weak)
74 - 95 mph
64 - 82 kts
28.94" or more
980.02 mb or more
4.0' - 5.0'
1.2 m - 1.5 m
Minimal damage to vegetation
Hurricane 2
(Moderate)
96 - 110 mph
83 - 95 kts
28.50" - 28.93"
965.12 mb - 979.68 mb
6.0' - 8.0'
1.8 m - 2.4 m
Moderate damage to houses
Hurricane 3
(Strong)
111 - 130 mph
96 - 112 kts
27.91" - 28.49"
945.14 mb - 964.78 mb
9.0' - 12.0'
2.7 m - 3.7 m
Extensive damage to small buildings
Hurricane 4
(Very strong)
131 - 155 mph
113 - 135 kts
27.17" - 27.90"
920.08 mb - 944.80 mb
13.0' - 18.0'
3.9 m - 5.5 m
Extreme structural damage
Hurricane 5
(Devastating)
Greater than 155 mph
Greater than 135 kts
Less than 27.17"
Less than 920.08 mb
Greater than 18.0'
Greater than 5.5m
Catastrophic building failures possible


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amscray; bugoutnow; getoutadodge; getoutoftown; hurricane; hurricanekatrina; katrina; katrinaandthewaves; livehurricanekatrina; lordprotectnoandla; nawlins; neworleans; tropical; walkingonsunshine; weather
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To: newzjunkey

This thing is so big it won't make much difference.

-Dan

841 posted on 08/28/2005 9:40:51 PM PDT by Flux Capacitor (Trust me. I know what I'm doing.)
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To: janetjanet998
only 10,000 in the superdome now? that means many still in the city outside of it....they were expecting alot more i think

Darn not a sell out it won't be televised

842 posted on 08/28/2005 9:41:00 PM PDT by al baby (Father of the beeber)
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To: NautiNurse

the reporter repeated the 10k number at least 3 times.


843 posted on 08/28/2005 9:41:00 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Freedom of speech makes it much easier to spot the idiots." [Jay Lessig, 2/7/2005])
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To: Sidebar Moderator

Boy, I'll say! I had to get my sunglasses out!!


844 posted on 08/28/2005 9:41:04 PM PDT by AggieMom x 3
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To: dandelion; NautiNurse

See dandelion's post.


845 posted on 08/28/2005 9:41:13 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: seamole

There was another horrible story today--all the staff members but one abandoned their nursing home patients. Family members were struggling to get over there to assist.


846 posted on 08/28/2005 9:41:22 PM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

That is a great question. Took forever for the stupid Mayor to even issue an Evacuation Order which he did this morning. Should be criminal IMHO! They shut the airport so visitors could not get out either.


847 posted on 08/28/2005 9:41:34 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)
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To: dandelion; NautiNurse

Are you keeping those guys and girls informed?


848 posted on 08/28/2005 9:41:40 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: PhiKapMom
I would have a hard time in the Superdome -- I don't do well in closed places

That makes two of us. The only worse place I can think of right now is being stuck in the traffic jam on the Lake Pontchartrain causeway. If they don't get those people off of there, there is going to be a disaster of almost unimaginable proportions.

849 posted on 08/28/2005 9:42:09 PM PDT by JustaCowgirl (The left thinks the Cm in Chief should step aside and let Cindy Sheehan make foreign policy for us.)
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To: Flux Capacitor

----This thing is so big it won't make much difference.----

The hurricane, I mean.

-Dan

850 posted on 08/28/2005 9:42:17 PM PDT by Flux Capacitor (Trust me. I know what I'm doing.)
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To: NautiNurse

Hotels filling as far away as Little Rock; Ark. preps for Katrina

DAVID HAMMER
Associated Press Writer

LITTLE ROCK — If Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans and sustains its Category 5 winds as expected Monday, hurricane force winds could be felt as far north as Monroe, La., and Jackson, Miss.

That could force refugees from the storm even further north than usual, and hotels in Little Rock are already expecting a wave of customers on the run.

Ben Beaumont of the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau said a sampling of hotels in the city showed that most were booked for Monday night, mainly with reservations from Louisiana.

The Holiday Inn Select and Hampton Inn both had refugees cancel reservations after deciding to stay closer to Louisiana, Beaumont said.

Little Rock is a 7 1/2-hour drive from New Orleans with no traffic, but all major highways out of the Big Easy were snarled Sunday.

Arkansas hotels along the Louisiana border were already full Saturday night with families fleeing the storm, which forced the first-ever mandatory evacuation of New Orleans on Sunday.

Six hotels in El Dorado and one in Smackover reported full bookings on Saturday.

At La Quinta Inn in El Dorado the front desk clerk said the hotel's 70 rooms were booked through Monday and Tuesday night.

"They're still calling and we don't have any room," the clerk said.

At the Best Western Hotel, clerk Carolyn Valentine said all 121 rooms were booked as well.

"They usually come all the way to El Dorado," she said. "We get mainly the Louisiana people from New Orleans and Slidell."

Arkansas volunteers prepared to help those put out of homes because of the storm.

Entergy Arkansas sent 80 linemen and 20 support workers to a staging area in Jackson, with 176 additional workers scheduled to leave Sunday for areas where they're most needed.

In addition, Entergy has to prepare for storm damage inside its Arkansas territory.

"We didn't send everybody, so we maintained a good baseline of workers at home," Entergy Arkansas spokesman David Lewis said Sunday. "If the storm hits us, it will be a matter of triage. Arkansas' first responsibility is to Arkansas customers, but sometimes we have to make a decision about where workers are needed most."

The American Red Cross said that it is using Little Rock as one of its staging areas to prepare to help victims. The Red Cross said between 80 and 100 emergency response vehicles set up positions in Little Rock on Sunday.

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.


851 posted on 08/28/2005 9:42:26 PM PDT by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: newzjunkey; All

For those interested, there's a somewhat lengthy give and take between various sources discussing predictions of a 'God's judgment' type very devasating hurricane to hit New Orleans due to rampant sin [e.g. immorality voodoo etc--though I don't know all such is mentioend in this particular exchange].

Available at post #72 at:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1472056/posts?page=68


852 posted on 08/28/2005 9:42:33 PM PDT by Quix (TIMES R A CHANGING! THE BIBLE GIVES THE OUTLINE AHEAD PRAY, PREPARE)
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To: sandyeggo

If it is the westward road to Texas, it would be I-10.


853 posted on 08/28/2005 9:42:40 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)
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To: bonfire
"I TRIED to read COD, but just didn't get it. I must really be dense."



Nah, it is one of those books that you either love or hate. It helps to have a familiarity with New Orleans ahead of time. I already knew about (and loved) the culture, Lucky Dog vendors, etc., and other geographical points I could relate to.
854 posted on 08/28/2005 9:42:42 PM PDT by Pirogue Captain
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To: newzjunkey

Given that Katrina has developed a very slight wobble in the last few hours (at least, that's what I think I've seen), it's still possible for her to edge westward towards NO.


855 posted on 08/28/2005 9:42:44 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: newzjunkey

Hey, Newz!!! Haven't talked to you since the night the shuttle landed! That was a great group staying up all night for several nights!


856 posted on 08/28/2005 9:42:48 PM PDT by paulat
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To: newzjunkey
They talked to the management company of the superdome. The roofing was replaced recently.

I wonder if they mean the one-inch thick polyurethane elastomer coating was replaced. My house roof has the exact same coating. It is plenty strong in normal circumstances, but you can pick it apart with a screwdriver with no effort at all. At any rate, is is really not a structural element in a design like the Superdome.

857 posted on 08/28/2005 9:42:49 PM PDT by steve86 (@)
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To: al baby

"Darn not a sell out it won't be televised"


Funny!


858 posted on 08/28/2005 9:43:02 PM PDT by bonfire (dwindler)
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To: patton

I'm almost caught up on this thread. Please, everyone stop posting anything until I catch my breath and clean my reading glasses!


859 posted on 08/28/2005 9:43:17 PM PDT by Chena (I'm not young enough to know everything)
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To: PhiKapMom

Some "plan," eh?


860 posted on 08/28/2005 9:43:19 PM PDT by Howlin
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