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

[Types_with_Fist]

The worst part of the wind is pushing the lake now.

I'm just guessing on this but that first high water MUST have come from the lake. If the Quarter's levee broke... that's the river and very bad news.

[maineman]

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



A better job, IMO. Fox is too negative. Did you see and hear Geraldo last night? Crazy. Fox always but this hurricane I'm on CNN, facts not hysterics.

[AppyPappy]

I hope Central Grocery survives. Best muffies in the world.

[palmer]

There was a small westward wobble an hour ago or so which put the eyewall into eastern NO (and strong N winds into the whole city). It was an unlucky wobble for them.

[RckyRaCoCo]

"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."

they always do....everything is a soap opera drama with the media grubs. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog would make a great actor reporter.

[eyespysomething]

live feed, follow links:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8004316/

[sarasota]

Have you seen any satellite photos? Damages will be difficult to assess until there are "boots on the ground".

[Doohickey]

Shush. Us grownups are trying to have a live thread here.

[Admin Moderator]

He's history.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

---WBRZ is reporting that 125 people in the 9th Ward have had to climb up onto the roofs of their homes due to rising water. The 9th ward is surrounded on three sides by water. This is probably close to the levee breach at Tennessee St. at the Industrial Canal.---

That happened in the same general area during Betsy....

[CindyDawg]

But you know what? How many of us are watching him? It's nuts but he is bringing in viewers, :')

[Republic]

RE: In fact, I don't recall hearing ANY Louisiana officials willing to step up to the plate and tell people to evacuate. It finally took the President to lean on the mayor and governor to do something. Even then, they still had a wishy-washy attitude.

I didn't hear this! Is there a link?

Sick stuff. The President of the USA had to become DADDY to the senators of Louisiana, the Governor and the MAYOR of NO.

These state officials delayed and DELAYED warning their people out of a fear of backlash if the storm missed um and they had all had to leave their homes for NOTHING!

Oh yeah.

And Senator Landrieau had the GALL to go on TV just moments ago and BLAME the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT for not taking care of HER PEOPLE in the NO AREA.

This woman IS A PART OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

Where was SHE over the past few days....out and mayor and holding press conferences in order to WARN their people? HELL NO!

Like our President, she and ALL congressfolk and senators are on a FULL MONTH OF VACATION....what was she doing yesterday and today......preparing her statement to blame President Bush? While she is doing NOTHING to help the people in her state prepare for this disaster ?????

She is not a grown up .... she does not care about the safety of the people in her state.....she waited for DADDY to have to ORDER the Governor and mayor to ORDER an EVACUATION...

This is the height of irresponsibility.

This woman needs to be thrown out of office, along with the Governor and mayor....all children who care only, ONLY, about looking good. TO hell with the safety of their people.

You can find references to President Bush's evacuation order on Saturday AM..on the thread previous to this one and the one before that...this is VIII, I think, so VII and VI will have the info.

[ohioWfan]

Troll kowabunga has been banned. Thankfully.

[usmcobra]

If he knew what he was talking about he'd have called it Tulane Stadium.

Zot him.

[1Old Pro]

On this one I agree. Fox news is being dramatic to the nth degree.

Ya think? Yesterday one reporter kept saying over and over and over that , THERE WON'T BE ENOUGH BODY BAGS. Sheesh, I was waiting for them to show the trucks bringing in the body bags.

[battlegearboat]

Always my last stop before heading to Kenner.

[jamz]

boo

Nothing beats FR in up to the minute coverage...Thanks guys/gals! This coming from just one of the many cubicle commandos of the world.

I really would like a live feed from Fox...CNN or something.

[Kozak]

Last I saw one levee breach, are there other breaches? Source?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

MSNBC reporting live from the Superdome.

[eyespysomething]

all the windows innthe Hilton have been blow out