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

[kinghorse]

The thing that made the 1900 hurricane so devastating was the dike of refuse (blown down structures) that literally moved like a bulldozer clearing everything in it's path. It was the surge and trash in the surge that was deadly. Without that you basically get the crap scared out of you but you survive.

[NonValueAdded]

Actually, what the reporter said was the roof is like a 12 slice pie and that it was one slice that had the holes.

[tomkat]

FOFL !

Better zip that off to the wire services, stat   

[cyborg]

LOL! Really? I didn't even know it was from Spongebob hehehe. Awwww how cute.

[jslade]

Temps getting warmer inside the Superdome.

With all those urban outdoorsman and no AC it's going to get a little ripe in the Dome.

[stlnative]

levee

[Sonar5]

hehehhe.... lol

Thanks for the Chuckle.. Now run away... Quickly.... lol

[Zechariah_8_13]

please update those of us w/o televisions.

[Kozak]

Wow that's the 1/12 of the roof?

Probably a woman who did the estimating. Bad at measurements....

[cyborg]

Oh okay... I knew it sounded weird. Now I know it was just me :o)

[NautiNurse]

ok-thanks. If you hear more hospital info, let me know, please

[jacquej]

If I understood the engineer from LSU on Fox, the 200 mph test on the Superdome roof depends completely on the roof remaining intact... there was a lot of discussion about how it could fail once the roof is breached.

I am hoping and praying for the best here, and all else should be praying too. This is terrible.

[cyborg]

Ouch! lol

[jeffers]

This is it people. We're seeing reports of complete structural failure in New Orleans, and the governor is on Fox now stating that flooding in NE New Orleans, in Orleans Parrish is at 6 to 8 feet, multiple breaches, rising at the rate of one foot per hour.

This can go a couple of different ways, a few buildings undermined and coming down, or perhaps more significant damage. I think reports that the city have dodged the worst were premature as the storm there is now at its maximum potential.

I'd like to see everyone here keep in mind that others reading may have loved ones in the area and keep speculation to an absolute minimum.

Regardless of howe this plays out, there will be loss of life ans I can see no reason to exaggerate or speculate, beyond hard newes reports as they come in.

A little patience and forbearance will go a long way towards making the best of the situation, whatever it proves to be.

[Hand em their arse]

Definitely explains the flying debris...

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I heard it from a person who works at Oshner hospital on WDSU

[cfo]

Floodwaters surround a car in uptown New Orleans early Monday, Aug. 29, 2005 as high winds and rain batter the Louisiana coast as Hurricane Katrina makes landfall. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

She could also be reporting on the roof's condition well after the pictures were taken.

[gopwinsin04]

Tornado Warning Now-- Catastrophic Winds for NOLA and Jefferson Parish!