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

[Kozak]

Well, NO dodged the worst. Biloxi and the Mississippi coast not so lucky....

[Lord Basil]

This part is separated by the industrial canal from downtown. The water will flow away from downtown. Apparently, this similar levee was dynamited during Betsy (as told to me by my parents).

[cyborg]

LOL

[FreedomPoster]

I agree, but then, Harrigan has seen a lot of crazy stuff as an embed in Afghanistan and Iraq, for which I give him a heckuva lot of credit.

This may not seem all that crazy, to him, given the stuff he's seen/done in the last few years.

[gopwinsin04]

Unconfirmed report that a levee broke in Jefferson Parish NOLA.

[mware]

To paraphrase Brian Kilmeade, 'When I see steve I am going to kick his @ss.'

[sheikdetailfeather]

CNN is doing a good job covering this even though I favor FOX.

[maineman]

"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."




AGREED!!!!

[NonValueAdded]

I heard 1,000,000 barrels of production is offline due to the storm

[No Blue States]

"ABC is reporting an oil rig broke loose in the Mobile AL area and hit a bridge over I-10."

I hope the bridge can hold up, though I doubt it.

Current Warnings for Louisiana:
(always hit reload for latest)

http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/la/warnings.html

[TheForceOfOne]

Yes, I know.

The structure is still sound, the roof is peeling off though.

[Quilla]

ROFL!

[snowsislander]

Vortex report:

VORTEX DATA MESSAGE
A. 29/13:54:20Z
B. 29 deg 58 min N
  089 deg 37 min W
C. NA  mb NA   m
D. NA  kt
E. NA  deg     nm
F. 164 deg 121 kt
G. 085 deg 026 nm
H.        926  mb
I.  14 C/ 2439 m
J.  20 C/ 2442 m
K.  18 C/ NA
L. OPEN SW
M. E180/35/25
N. 12345/NA
O. 0.02 / 1  nm
P. AF306 2112A KATRINA      OB 25
MAX FL WIND 121 KT E QUAD 13:46:50 Z
FLIGHT ALTITUDE 8000 FT

[battlegearboat]

My thoughts too.

I Hate to say it, but CNN has it all over the incredibly stupid FOX team this time out.

[palmer]

not the corridor between NO and Biloxi

It's exactly in that corridor. NO is getting strong north winds now and Biloxi is getting surge and SE winds (it will be worse there).

[Fishtalk]

Finally, Steve runs for cover (it took a large piece of roof almost landing on him)!

Checked in on CNN and they are doing a serious study on an awning and some light fixtures, smirk, smirk.

Heard that goofy Governor from Louisiana today. Figured the DNC faxed out the talking points yesterday.

"Whatever you do, mention that Louisiana needs more federal money. Do the best you can to cast aspersions on this administration.

Try to get in the possibility that President Bush caused this hurricane. Suggest that he made it worse and arranged for it to veer around his brother's state to completely destroy New Orleans.

Be sure to mention at every chance that Louisiana needs more federal money."

[kenth]

Yeah, I saw that too. Orlando Salinas. He held that anemometer up and had trouble keeping it still enough to read it. Sounded like he just made up a number at the time. He seemed to be all hepped up on adrenaline or something.

[Sonar5]

I could see him knocking on the door, them not letting him in, he goes back to his truck an dthen films the copllapse of the hotel that locked him out.

Then he flies away screaming Whgoooaaa.....

I hope I'm wrong about that.

[SE Mom]

7-8 ft of water on Highway 90 per MSNBC

[texan75010]

According to WDSU, East Jefferson General Hospital in Metairie has 7 feet of water. This is UNCONFIMED.