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

[steveegg]

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

[gopwinsin04]

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

[ladyjane]

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

[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.

Disclaimer: I am not an engineer.

[spanalot]

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

[Coldwater Creek]

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

[eyespysomething]

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

[Knitting A Conundrum]

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?

[bill1952]

Thats the one.

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

[FreedomPoster]

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

[Tarheel]

**Across the river from N.O. ?**

Yes

[cyborg]

Good grief I hope not.

[Guenevere]

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.

[gopwinsin04]

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

[IMRight]

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.

[NautiNurse]

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

What is your source?

[advance_copy]

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

[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.

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.

[not-alone]

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.