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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: spycatcher

TWC - Eye now even with and east of New Orleans. Slidell now in the northwestern eyewall.


1,221 posted on 08/29/2005 6:46:52 AM PDT by steveegg (Real torture is taking a ride with Sen Ted "Swimmer" Kennedy in a 1968 Oldsmobile off a short bridge)
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To: spycatcher

NOLA Hospitals now moving operations to upper floors abandoning the building lower floors.


1,222 posted on 08/29/2005 6:46:58 AM PDT by gopwinsin04 (Prayers up for the Gulf Coast)
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To: cyborg

What was the comment someone made yesterday - human cheerios floating in a big bowl? Hope not.


1,223 posted on 08/29/2005 6:47:03 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Zechariah_8_13

Roof, structurally, is not the same as roof cover. My understanding is that a small portion of the cover has come off, but have not heard that the roof supporting structure has been damaged.

Disclaimer: I am not an engineer.


1,224 posted on 08/29/2005 6:47:11 AM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Diddle E. Squat

"just 2 minor holes in the roof fabric"
post 1146 has links to photos of hole in roof - not much damage really


1,225 posted on 08/29/2005 6:47:11 AM PDT by spanalot
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To: I still care

And you do not see a potential for people dying if the Hildabeast is in charge?????????


1,226 posted on 08/29/2005 6:47:42 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: gopwinsin04

Worried the roof of the hospital is going to come off.


1,227 posted on 08/29/2005 6:47:50 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: NonValueAdded

Michoud is in New Orleans East, not Slidell, unless they moved it since I lived there last...I wonder how the Folger's plant is doing?


1,228 posted on 08/29/2005 6:47:59 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: WKB

Thats the one.

I'm going to see if there are any tracks of it to buy on the web. -Thanks. ;^)


1,229 posted on 08/29/2005 6:48:24 AM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: spanalot

The problem is, a hole makes it much easier for the wind to create a much bigger hole.


1,230 posted on 08/29/2005 6:48:24 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: 11th_VA
**Across the river from N.O. ?**

Yes

1,231 posted on 08/29/2005 6:48:28 AM PDT by Tarheel ( Murphy's law #21--Internet flame wars are started by two cats who did not like their supper.)
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To: ladyjane

Good grief I hope not.


1,232 posted on 08/29/2005 6:48:29 AM PDT by cyborg (I'm having the best day ever.)
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To: NonValueAdded
This is true...

..Aren't all the major hotels on our beachside still empty....a year later!

I'm talking big hotels like Ramada, Holiday Inn, Raddison, etc.

Still being renovated, and we weren't even ground zero.

Also had a huge church steeple zapped off and embedded in the church upside down.

1,234 posted on 08/29/2005 6:49:08 AM PDT by Guenevere (God bless our military!...and God bless the President of the United States!)
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To: eyespysomething

Collapsed building in the 2400 block of Burgandy Road in NOLA.


1,235 posted on 08/29/2005 6:49:09 AM PDT by gopwinsin04 (Prayers up for the Gulf Coast)
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To: Zechariah_8_13
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.

Thanks for the correction. But keep in mind that the parts that are "failing" are essentially "sprayed on", and are not themselves structural in any way.

1,236 posted on 08/29/2005 6:49:12 AM PDT by IMRight
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To: gopwinsin04
NOLA Hospitals now moving operations to upper floors abandoning the building lower floors

What is your source?

1,237 posted on 08/29/2005 6:49:29 AM 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: Constitution Day

FNC: Some New Orleans houses are flooded up to the ceiling.


1,238 posted on 08/29/2005 6:49:32 AM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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To: Gondring
Roof, structurally, is not the same as roof cover. My understanding is that a small portion of the cover has come off, but have not heard that the roof supporting structure has been damaged.

I understand that. I never claimed that I thought the roof integrity was compromised by the loss of cover. I only argued that in this case, the roof IS an integral part of the building stability. I didn't mean the foam, I meant the actual roof structure.
1,239 posted on 08/29/2005 6:49:36 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: Gondring
Maybe some in the super dome next time will save money on pre hurricane parties and evacuate. I can,t imagine they have a lot of confidence in that as a shelter now.One such experience would be enough for me.
1,240 posted on 08/29/2005 6:49:39 AM PDT by not-alone
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