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

[TheBigB]

Ah!

[benjaminjjones]

Farewell, dear old Cafe Du Monde!

Ummm! Beignets!

[pragmaticgal]

Steve, the Beau Rivage is a BEAUTIFUL Casino/Hotel in Biloxi, MS.,/p>

You can check out their website at www.beaurivage.com.

[ohioWfan]

I don't think Steve can go inside. They won't open the door.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Brian Williams reported that there are a couple of more holes people can see daylight through. They have some light but no information getting to them from official sources. He said there are many holes you can't see, rain is coming in in many places. He said the girders will hold, but many of the roof sections are flattening out. He said that people are being good natured about moving. He also said that it's hard to find a dry place on the field.

[cajungirl]

Does that tunnel at Mobile flood?

[cyborg]

heh!

[KJC1]

I'm trying to catch up, can someone explain how many people are in the Superdome?

It seems like last night the number was about 25,000-30,000 and then I read a post in this thread saying 9,000 people were inside. Anyone know about this discrepancy?

[kinghorse]

Geraldo said he didn't want to interject politics into a natural disaster then went right into "we missed to biggest threat to the homeland while pursuing another" or some such finger pointing. Jackass.

[TheBigB]

I hate when I am 'disbonnect from the BOP'

What a time to be thinking about sex. ;o)

[No Blue States]

"Anybody seen any more reports of tornadoes in the area?"

Not since 8:42 for Pearl River county as per the Noaa warnings link.

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

Tornado warnings.

[sarasota]

Thanks. Page unavailable just now but will check later.

[Lazamataz]

I've been waiting on your waiting.

[hawkk]

has anyone heard about the USS Alabama? any pics?

[ken5050]

He's about to demonstrate how to catch a 2x4 with his teeth...NOY..

[Joe 6-pack]

I'm in Lafayette; about 110 miles from the Big EZ. Baton Rouge is about the halfway mark between here and NO...a caller on a local radio show just said power is going out in parts of Baton Rouge now.

[TheBigB]

Mobile? Holy cow!

[CedarDave]

Anyone, I'm hearing a lot about crazy Harrigan, but not where he is. What city is Harrigan reporting from?

[RushCrush]

CLEVER! LOL!

[HoHoeHeaux]

I am trying to catch up hereand am so so hopeful for NO now. Has anyone made the obvious observation about JIm Cantorre? He was in Biloxi all along. I think he must be a hurricane magnet.

Still praying hard for all in this monster. I am working and cableless so please all, keep us informed. And I do agree that this is no thread for jokes. This is dead serious.