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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII
NOAA - NHC ^ | 29 August 2005 | NOAA - NHC

Posted on 08/29/2005 2:47:45 AM PDT by 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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: hurricane; hurricanekatrina; katrina; livehurricanekatrina; tropical; weather
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To: kowabunga
When they said to go to the stadium, I went to the Sugar Bowl instead of the Dome. I screwed up. I'm getting soaked, but no roof damage here.

Ummm, last time I checked, the Sugar Bowl is held at the Super Dome and pretty much if it is raining in New Orleans, it IS the Hurricane. Really lame attempt at a joke.
1,601 posted on 08/29/2005 7:24:39 AM PDT by MikefromOhio (Prayers for the people in the NO)
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To: All

The good news is, markets are up.


1,602 posted on 08/29/2005 7:24:44 AM PDT by lmavk
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To: dawn53

Farewell, dear old Cafe Du Monde!


1,603 posted on 08/29/2005 7:24:48 AM PDT by battlegearboat
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To: cyborg

And he's already gotten a slap from the mods...


1,604 posted on 08/29/2005 7:24:49 AM PDT by Hoodlum91
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To: cyborg

Yeah I saw BS on him too, and simply chose not to respond.


1,605 posted on 08/29/2005 7:24:52 AM PDT by Sonar5 (60+ Million have Spoken Clearly - "We Want Our Country Back")
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To: dawn53

I think Shep's having brunch.


1,606 posted on 08/29/2005 7:24:57 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Types_with_Fist
"Looks to be French Quarter levee I hear."

Ok so where is Shep? We need some actual report on this if possible. This is going to get worse I fear. The worst part of the wind is pushing the lake now.

1,607 posted on 08/29/2005 7:25:00 AM PDT by WestCoastGal (Thank you JR for pulling this limping team across the finish in 9th place)
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To: NautiNurse
NOAA BULLETIN

HURRICANE KATRINA INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 26B
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
8 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005

...LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY FOUR HURRICANE KATRINA POUNDING SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI...

A HURRICANE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTH CENTRAL GULF COAST FROM MORGAN CITY LOUISIANA EASTWARD TO THE ALABAMA/FLORIDA BORDER...INCLUDING THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS AND LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN.

A TROPICAL STORM WARNING AND A HURRICANE WATCH ARE IN EFFECT FROM EAST OF THE ALABAMA/FLORIDA BORDER TO DESTIN FLORIDA...AND FROM WEST OF MORGAN CITY TO INTRACOASTAL CITY LOUISIANA.

A TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS ALSO IN EFFECT FROM DESTIN FLORIDA EASTWARD TO INDIAN PASS FLORIDA...AND FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY LOUISIANA WESTWARD TO CAMERON LOUISIANA.

FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA...INCLUDING POSSIBLE INLAND WATCHES AND WARNINGS...PLEASE MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED BY YOUR LOCAL WEATHER OFFICE.

AT 8 AM CDT...1300Z...THE CENTER OF HURRICANE KATRINA WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 29.7 NORTH... LONGITUDE 89.6 WEST OR ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA AND ABOUT 65 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BILOXI MISSISSIPPI.

KATRINA IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH NEAR 15 MPH...AND A GRADUAL TURN TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT A SLIGHTLY FASTER FORWARD SPEED IS EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS. ON THIS TRACK...THE CENTER WILL BE PASSING JUST TO THE EAST OF NEW ORLEANS DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS WITH THE WORST OF THE WEATHER FOR THAT CITY OCCURRING OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. THE CENTER IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI LATER TODAY.

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 135 MPH...WITH HIGHER GUSTS. KATRINA IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY FOUR HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE. WEAKENING IS FORECAST AS THE CIRCULATION INTERACTS WITH LAND TODAY. WINDS AFFECTING THE UPPER FLOORS OF HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS WILL BE SIGNIFICANTLY STRONGER THAN THOSE NEAR GROUND LEVEL.

KATRINA IS A VERY LARGE HURRICANE. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 125 MILES FROM THE CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 230 MILES. PASCAGOULA MISSISSIPPI CIVIL DEFENSE REPORTED A WIND GUST TO 118 MPH...AND GULFPORT MISSISSIPPI

EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER REPORTED SUSTAINED WINDS OF 94 MPH WITH A GUST TO 100 MPH. BELLE CHASSE LOUISIANA...JUST SOUTHEAST OF NEW ORLEANS...RECENTLY REPORTED SUSTAINED WINDS OF 76 MPH WITH A GUST TO 88 MPH. A LITTLE EARLIER...BELLE CHASE REPORTED A GUST TO 105

MPH. NEW ORLEANS LAKEFRONT AIRPORT RECENTLY REPORTED SUSTAINED WINDS OF 69 MPH WITH A GUST TO 86 MPH.

THE MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE RECENTLY REPORTED BY AN AIR FORCE RESERVE UNIT RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT WAS 923 MB...27.26 INCHES.

COASTAL STORM SURGE FLOODING OF 18 TO 22 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TIDE LEVELS...ALONG WITH LARGE AND DANGEROUS BATTERING WAVES...CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR AND TO THE EAST OF THE CENTER. STORM SURGE FLOODING OF 10 TO 15 FEET...NEAR THE TOPS OF THE LEVEES...IS POSSIBLE IN THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS AREA.

SIGNIFICANT STORM SURGE FLOODING WILL OCCUR ELSEWHERE ALONG THE CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO COAST.

RAINFALL TOTALS OF 5 TO 10 INCHES...WITH ISOLATED MAXIMUM AMOUNTS OF 15 INCHES...ARE POSSIBLE ALONG THE PATH OF KATRINA ACROSS THE GULF COAST AND THE TENNESSEE VALLEY.

RAINFALL TOTALS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY INTO THE EASTERN GREAT LAKES REGION TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.

THE TORNADO THREAT AHEAD OF KATRINA CONTINUES TO INCREASE AND SCATTERED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY OVER SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA... SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHERN ALABAMA...AND OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE.

REPEATING THE 8 AM CDT POSITION...29.7 N... 89.6 W. MOVEMENT TOWARD...NORTH NEAR 15 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...135 MPH. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE... 923 MB.

THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AT 10 AM CDT.

FORECASTER PASCH

Just heard this is the largest Red Cross effort ever mounted.....all phones out at the SuperDome....some cells still working until batterries die

1,608 posted on 08/29/2005 7:25:03 AM PDT by apackof2 (In my simple way, I guess you could say I'm living in the BIG TIME)
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To: PigRigger

Most of NO north of the Miss. River is divided into 3 sections of levees. The largest one is the west and central city, bordered on the east by the Industrial/Navigation Canal. The smallest is to the east of the Industrial/Navigation Canal that runs north/south and south of the Intercoastal Canal that runs east/west and ends at the Ind. Canal. The 3rd is to the northeast, east of the Ind. Canal and north of the Intercoastal Canal. Each has its own set of levees, forming their own bowl. So a breach/overtopping in one won't affect the others (though the conditions that cause such might.)

Here are zoomable topo maps:

http://terraserver-usa.com/

enter 'New Orleans' 'LA', but unfortunately the map edge cuts in the middle of the east and northeast sides. To see east of there, enter 'Slidell' 'LA', which is northeast and across the lake, and then you can zoom out and follow the I-10 freeway to the south/southwest to the northeast portion of New Orleans.


1,609 posted on 08/29/2005 7:25:03 AM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: kowabunga; Admin Moderator

Somebody please zot this clown.


1,610 posted on 08/29/2005 7:25:11 AM PDT by SlowBoat407 (A living affront to Islam since 1959)
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To: sonsofliberty2000

heh


1,611 posted on 08/29/2005 7:25:12 AM PDT by cyborg (I'm having the best day ever.)
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To: LibertyRocks
That's where all of the slots and gaming tables are...ground level and second floor.

sw

1,612 posted on 08/29/2005 7:25:13 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife (God Save New Orleans)
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To: GOPJ

He reminds me of a teenager...he's getting a high off the risk he's taking.


1,613 posted on 08/29/2005 7:25:28 AM PDT by dawn53
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To: jamz

I don't know that there is a live feed, but the website -- www.foxnews.com -- has a number of stories, videos and photographs.


1,614 posted on 08/29/2005 7:25:30 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Mo1

I switch the channel everytime they show an idiot outside.


1,615 posted on 08/29/2005 7:26:14 AM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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To: snowsislander
Changes from the last vortex report:

Moving due north
Pressure up 1 mb to 926 mb
Eye now open in the southwest quadrant (was open in the southeast the last 2 reports)
Max flight-level winds down 3 knots (was 124 knots in the southeast quadrant)

1,616 posted on 08/29/2005 7:26:18 AM PDT by steveegg (Real torture is taking a ride with Sen Ted "Swimmer" Kennedy in a 1968 Oldsmobile off a short bridge)
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To: battlegearboat

Cafe Du Monde will not die....hang in there...


1,617 posted on 08/29/2005 7:26:23 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: NautiNurse; All

Any word on Port Sulphur? Is it still there?


1,618 posted on 08/29/2005 7:26:26 AM PDT by Pirogue Captain
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To: gopwinsin04
"Any one have confirmation on the FOX report that the Mississipi levee broke in the French Quarter?"

Confirmed. That report came from Shep Smith first.

1,619 posted on 08/29/2005 7:26:31 AM PDT by Michael Goldsberry (Galveston)
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To: SlowBoat407

He's off the air for now. The power may be out, but the mods can still zot.


1,620 posted on 08/29/2005 7:26:31 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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