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

[RushCrush]

Fox needs to know that most likely a majority of their viewers want his butt inside.

[PigRigger]

I agree...the worst to come will be in the form of flooding in NOLA...winds will start to fall-back within the hour.....Are there any densely populated areas to the NE of NOLA (25-35 miles NE)?

.....That area is taking this storm head on....I would not be surprised to see catastrophic damage in this region...

[OXENinFLA]

Was this just a real report?

GLEN BECK just said part of the roof of the SUPER DOME just broke off.

[SlowBoat407]

Am I nuts or is this nuts?

Yes ;)

[Constitution Day]

Tough boogers. He shouldn't have been out there in the first place.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Steve sounds like a five year old playing in a big mud puddle. WHOA........

[WestCoastGal]

Finally Harrigan has had enough!!

[Sonar5]

Well, Harrigan almost got clobbered by a roof, so he is heading out. Duhhh....!

[gopwinsin04]

NOLA Airport gusts at 85MPH.

[filbert]

"Woah-oha! I'm getting out of here!" -- Steve Harrigan, idiot.

[GOPyouth]

Harrigan just hauled a$$ away from where he was. A piece of roof landed right next to him. He yelled and said, "I'm getting out of here."

[southlake_hoosier]

Would this mean that there is oil pumping into the water where the oil rig used to be? Just wondering?

[cyborg]

My mom remembers seeing galvanizing slice off someone's head in a really bad storm. He apparently just had a close call.

[justa-hairyape]

Trust me, NOLA DID dodge a MOAB; the destruction that would have ensued if they were to the east of the eye would have been far greater...that does not mean that NOLA will not see significant damage, just that it could be a whole lot worse

To the east of the eye would have produced the worse wind damage. To the west of the eye would have produced the worse flood damage.

[mewzilla]

I heard Harrigan hollering in the other room. Did he dodge some more debris?

[steveegg]

I want to see Cantore! He's probably got a jet ski in the Beau rivage..not kidding either.

He was just on via phone. He relocated to a government retirement home a half-mile inland, and reported that the parking lot there was flooded.

Third landfall appears to be happening at the Louisiana/Mississippi state line.

[Steve_Seattle]

Last night Fox had some guy with a wind meter standing out in winds that appeared to be at least 40-45 mph, and he was holding up the meter and saying the wind was only 13 mph. He seemed like an idiot.

[Diddle E. Squat]

A LEVEE BREACH OCCURRED ALONG THE INDUSTRIAL CANAL AT TENNESSE STREET. 3 TO 8 FEET OF WATER IS EXPECTED DUE TO THE BREACH...LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ARABI AND 9TH WARD OF NEW ORLEANS.

It appears that this is actually a separate section of the city to the east/southeast of the majority of New Orleans, in a separate levee system, so it shouldn't cause flooding in the central city.

[TheForceOfOne]

The superdome roof should fall apart faster since it has already been breached. Not good.