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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII
NOAA - NHC ^ | 29 August 2005 | NOAA - NHC

Posted on 08/29/2005 2:47:45 AM PDT by NautiNurse

Category 4 Hurricane Katrina is approaching landfall in Eastern Louisiana. At 4:00AM EDT the storm's center was about 90 miles south of New Orleans.

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

Lake Ponchartrain Real Time Water Level

Wind Speed Data

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 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:

Cut and Paste:

http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=beloint_khou&props=livenoad

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


Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VII
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

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; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: hurricane; hurricanekatrina; katrina; livehurricanekatrina; tropical; weather
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To: andyandval

Fox reporting moving refugees back under overhangs, roof leaking...


1,001 posted on 08/29/2005 6:15:03 AM PDT by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: queenkathy

The good news, so far, is that the storm picked up speed going north. That will reduce the winds on the west side of the hurricane which will help NO greatly.


1,002 posted on 08/29/2005 6:15:12 AM PDT by DB (©)
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To: Right_in_Virginia

WAPT-TV news.


1,003 posted on 08/29/2005 6:15:26 AM PDT by gopwinsin04 (Prayers up for the Gulf Coast)
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To: Leapfrog

Brian Williams is live (phone) in the dome on MSNBC


1,004 posted on 08/29/2005 6:15:35 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: Peach

LOL! Our local radio host just said that he thinks Steve has a death wish. He's imitating him with, "Oh, look a piece of roof just blew past me."

We have had a replacement host named Leslie ? on last week who thinks Cindy Sheehan is great. He says he asked the program director if they could send Leslie down to NO.


1,005 posted on 08/29/2005 6:15:36 AM PDT by kitkat ("We're not going to let anybody frighten us from our great love of freedom." GWB, 7/22/05))
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To: 4everontheRight
I ask for prayers for all those in LA and MS!!

You've got it. I've been praying all night.

1,006 posted on 08/29/2005 6:15:39 AM PDT by McGavin999 ("You must call evil by it's name" GW Bush ......... It's name is Terror)
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To: dfwgator

SO basically now the Superdome looks like . . . a super tub?


1,007 posted on 08/29/2005 6:15:42 AM PDT by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
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To: dfwgator

Oops, Brian says "another small section just lifted up"..


1,008 posted on 08/29/2005 6:15:54 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife (God Save New Orleans)
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To: IMRight

""If the roof comes off, I think they are in big trouble. The whole structure will be compromised and
the rest of the interior will likely sustain catastrophic damage.""

"I rather doubt it. It doesn't look like the roof is in any way structurally supporting the rest of the building."

Per discussion and technical data in earlier thread, roof and walls are integral to each other.

Still, it important to note that roof panels are not the same as roof trusses/supports, which do not appear to have been affected yet.

Hurricanes take roofs frequently, and while people get wet, they can and have survived.


1,009 posted on 08/29/2005 6:16:07 AM PDT by jeffers
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To: stboz

Camille was Cat 5 when she hit land with wind gusts up to 200 mph. Not that Katrina isn't bad, but not Camille, at least I pray not.

My grandmother's house was crushed into matchsticks when a big gas tank was blown off a ship and rolled over it during Camille, and she was in D'Iberville, north of the Back Bay!

At least her house was. She was in Baton Rouge, and never moved back.


1,011 posted on 08/29/2005 6:16:19 AM PDT by CobaltBlue (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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To: cyborg
HOLD THAT TIGER!


1,012 posted on 08/29/2005 6:16:37 AM PDT by gopwinsin04 (Prayers up for the Gulf Coast)
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To: spectre

1,013 posted on 08/29/2005 6:16:38 AM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: spectre

Pictures up on MSNBC now


1,014 posted on 08/29/2005 6:16:39 AM PDT by WestCoastGal (Thank you JR for pulling this limping team across the finish in 9th place)
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To: spectre

It won't be long before panic sets in. God Help them.


1,015 posted on 08/29/2005 6:16:40 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (In Tampa Bay praying for all In Katrina's path.)
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To: gopwinsin04

Thanks.


1,016 posted on 08/29/2005 6:16:45 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: NonValueAdded

... not that much debris falling ... reporters wondering what it looks like from the outside ... they are standing in the tunnel where the Saints come out onto the field ... they placed the new roof over the old roof ... from sounds that we heard was that part of new roof was peeling off, slamming the old roof ... after a while it would cause some damage ... that is their theory ... new latex covering coming off only thing that would explain the sound they heard ...


1,017 posted on 08/29/2005 6:16:57 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Freedom of speech makes it much easier to spot the idiots." [Jay Lessig, 2/7/2005])
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To: auto power

Yikes....isn't the room made of concrete?

The domes roof isn't


1,018 posted on 08/29/2005 6:16:59 AM PDT by SunnySide (Ephes2:8 ByGraceYou'veBeenSavedThruFaithAGiftOfGodSoNoOneCanBoast)
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To: benjaminjjones

Sorry, had to take a client call and actually do some work.

I installed ReloadEvery and installed it in Firefox.

Now I guess I'll have to learn how to use Firefox.

I want to be able to set the time on the thing. And how 'bout only making it run on one page or instance of Firefox.


1,019 posted on 08/29/2005 6:17:03 AM PDT by benjaminjjones
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To: cyborg
Listen to Landreau!!!

No. Don't wanna, and you can't make me. =P

1,020 posted on 08/29/2005 6:17:08 AM PDT by TheBigB (It's funktastic!!)
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