Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII

NOAA - NHC ^ | 29 August 2005 | NOAA - NHC

[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

[gopwinsin04]

HOLD THAT TIGER!

Water rising at Airline Park...

[NonValueAdded]

Thanks for the concern, QK.

[ElisabethInCincy]

http://www.wwltv.com/

[Constitution Day]

Personally, I want to know when that hot Air Force Lt. with the hurricane hunters will be back on the Weather Channel.

They kept showing her in the promo clips yesterday.

[Right_in_Virginia]

The networks have to fill 24/7 air time without reporters out in the storm. I guess this is the best they can do ;-)

[Sleeping Freeper]

WWL-TV just announced that the levy has breached near St. Bernard Parish. 3-8 feet of water flooding the area. Warning all of serious flooding.

[advance_copy]

CNN: John Zerella reports waves of water rolling down the street in New Orleans. Water rushing up from manhole covers.

[StatenIsland]

CNN Breaking News: "Massive" piece of the roof has blown away.

Don't know if this is new news, or an exaggeration of the older news.

[Mo1]

Why is that idiot on MSLSD up in the ceiling?

[leadpenny]

I just switched on MSNBC and thought the weather guy was changing the light bulbs.

[Gondring]

Thanks for providing the details. I don't actually think we'll see major breaching, but my point was broader...that the situation will just be worse for future storms unless changes are made.

[pragmaticgal]

And he's continuing to report from his perch! I'd like to change channels, but I'm afraid I might miss something. This is just fascinating.

[NonValueAdded]

disagree .. the reporter on the floor said a 3 ft by 5 ft chink missing and he could see daylight. Yes, the majority of the roof is intact, but it is incorrect to say there is no breach.

[gopwinsin04]

Stock markets on the east coast are opening now, futures markets starts down for oil.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Leave it to an Irishman to love the feel of the sting of the water from the ocean on his face ;-).

[NonValueAdded]

chunk, that is

[Heatseeker]

Don't know whether it's been reported yet or not, but WDSU-TV just reported that the levee pumps are "down".

[LadyBuzz]

What idiot's

[TheBigB]

Dang!