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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; tropical; weather
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To: spanalot
Its a polyurethane foam - just like the space shuttle

Oh, that's comforting! </sarc>

1,181 posted on 08/29/2005 6:40:39 AM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: jacquej

CNN REPORTING TOTAL STRUCTURAL FAILURE IN MANY BLDGS. IN NO. TORNADOES ALL OVER.


1,182 posted on 08/29/2005 6:40:39 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: Rutles4Ever

feet.....


1,183 posted on 08/29/2005 6:40:49 AM PDT by Sonar5 (60+ Million have Spoken Clearly - "We Want Our Country Back")
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To: jeffers; IMRight

Thank you! that's the article I was looking for:

Contractors building the Superdome also found that it required efforts and techniques that were a bit out of the ordinary, especially in the construction of its roof. For this building, the largest clear span steel structure in the world (as attested to by the new Guinness Book of World Records) is literally held together by its roof. In its flying - saucer-shaped design , the walls of the Superdome literally hang (for want of more descriptive term) from the roof, with the force vectors at foundation level pointing away from the center.


1,184 posted on 08/29/2005 6:40:58 AM PDT by Zechariah_8_13 (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: ChadGore

msnbc.com, at the top click on live video


1,185 posted on 08/29/2005 6:41:04 AM PDT by eyespysomething (What disgusts me the most is how other GStar families have had their wounds ripped back open! FU CS)
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To: hc87
Yep, Harvey is on the West Bank.

Which is on the east side of the city

1,186 posted on 08/29/2005 6:41:05 AM PDT by tx_eggman (Does it hurt when they shear your wool off?)
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To: Sonar5
This storm has to be hard on every buoy and gull.
1,187 posted on 08/29/2005 6:41:06 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult ("Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: gopwinsin04
Mary Landrieu press conference in a preppy blue tied sweater!

I heard her on FOX this a.m. blaming Bush....no kidding. She's a jack a**

1,188 posted on 08/29/2005 6:41:09 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Lizarde

OMG


1,189 posted on 08/29/2005 6:41:22 AM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/la/allwarnings.html

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR CATASTROPHIC WINDS FOR...
JEFFERSON PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...TIMBERLANE...METAIRIE...MARRERO...
KENNER...HARVEY...AVONDALE
LAFOURCHE PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CUT OFF
ORLEANS PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS
PLAQUEMINES PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...PORT SULPHUR...BELLE CHASSE
ST. BERNARD PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CHALMETTE
ST. CHARLES PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA

* UNTIL 900 AM CDT

* AT 832 AM CDT...MANY REPORTS ARE COMING IN STATING TOTAL
STRUCTURAL FAILURE IN THE NEW ORLEANS METRO AREA.

SEEK SUBSTANTIAL COVER NOW!!! THIS IS A LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CDT MONDAY FOR SOUTHEAST
LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI.


1,191 posted on 08/29/2005 6:42:00 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: spanalot
is'nt there a law against shouting "FIRE" in a theater?

Here? Some folks are salivating to shout the worst has happened. Zero knowledge of engineering or the structures involved, but certain from a 1000 miles away on what is happening and that people will be "sucked out of the roof". And of course apparently there is a prize for being the first to declare any worst case damage.

1,192 posted on 08/29/2005 6:42:10 AM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: spanalot

Speaking of the shuttle, isn't the external tank made at the Slidel facility ... or should that be past tense.


1,193 posted on 08/29/2005 6:42:13 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: gopwinsin04

Anybody seen David Vitter?


1,194 posted on 08/29/2005 6:42:22 AM PDT by TheBigB (It's funktastic!!)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
This storm has to be hard on every buoy and gull.

Nice...

1,195 posted on 08/29/2005 6:42:26 AM PDT by NittanyLion
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To: jacquej

I think it will hold. But in this case, it's more critical than usual that it does.


1,196 posted on 08/29/2005 6:42:37 AM PDT by Zechariah_8_13 (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: 1Old Pro

Landrieu looks like a clown. She needs to go away and let the emergency personell do their job!


1,197 posted on 08/29/2005 6:42:51 AM PDT by gopwinsin04 (Prayers up for the Gulf Coast)
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To: Sleeping Freeper
Levy Breach!

Cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good,
Now, cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good,
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move...

Music: http://209.68.63.220/19580222/rock/ledzeppelin/WhenTheLeveeBreaks.mid


1,198 posted on 08/29/2005 6:42:52 AM PDT by ppaul
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To: NonValueAdded

ET's are made at the Michoud facility


1,199 posted on 08/29/2005 6:43:02 AM PDT by Sonar5 (60+ Million have Spoken Clearly - "We Want Our Country Back")
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To: Strategerist

Jefferson Parish is Metarie.


1,200 posted on 08/29/2005 6:43:38 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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