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

[kenth]

That has to be, without a doubt, one of the dumbest things I've ever seen a newsy do to be part of the story.

[Frank_Discussion]

Late to the thread, y'all. From this animation, am I seeing that Katrina has moved west AGAIN!? It looks like a direct hit, not the corridor between NO and Biloxi that I head of at 7ish this morning... How's the Superdome? Heard on the radio the roof is starting to peel off? I knew it was leaking like a seive, for sure.

[spectre]

The worst is hitting Lake Ponchitrain now...this is make or break..

sw

[Hand em their arse]

I knew they never really did like the Irish down there, but let the poor guy in, fellas...

[Guenevere]

But I just read on the screen that a levee has failed in New Orleans.....So who's right?

[TheBigB]

Tough boogers

Mouth like a truck driver...;o)

[RayChuang88]

Hurricane Katrina may cost U.S. insurers more than $30 billion, which would make the storm the most expensive to hit the United States, a storm modeler said.

But given the fact the water pumps are out and the fact the storm surge is hitting Lake Pontchartrain as I type this I do fear that the entire city will be swamped with at least 8-10 feet of water within the next 4-6 hours. And if it really floods we maybe talking damage in the city that could approach US$1 trillion.

[Political Junkie Too]

I think that the media wants to make this storm look much worse than what it really is because for the 48 hours they have been hyping it at the worst storm to ever hit the United States and they just do not want to be proven wrong in their predictions as they usually are most of the time.

Because their justification for not covering Camp Qualls was because they were covering Camp Squalls?

-PJ

[gopwinsin04]

WBRZ-TV reports 116 people now trapped on the roofs of the homes in the NOLA areas.

Cell Telephone lines are jammed. Media adises people to stop calling

[fhlh]

uh, the Suger Bowl is held in the Superdome.... was this some kind of joke?

[jeffers]

Thank you.

[usmcobra]

Then he must be out in the rains to get his brains.

[Constitution Day]

:P

I was holding back!

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

CNN reporter in Biloxi reports that a woman in his hotel opened her door and the wind slammed it so hard the door took off half her finger. A nurse is treating her now. That reporter is going in now, winds 100 + MPH

[JRochelle]

Why doesn't Katrina just take him out and be done with it!!!

[jneesy]

fox news just said mississippi levee in french quarter breeched

[Types_with_Fist]

Sounds like water is pouring in now from Ponchatrain and the river.

[eyespysomething]

All being reported, and trying to confirm:

East Jefferson Hospital in NO, 7 ft of water on the first floor

Industrial levees has given out

WLOX in Biloxi has lost some of its roof

[RushCrush]

he almost got zotted by a piece of a roof.

LOL!!!

[TheBigB]

***FOX NEWS ALERT: "WHOOOOOAAAAAA!!" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEES ALERT***