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

[Lazamataz]

You two (exhibitionists) chubby girls need to get a motel room.

Only if you come along. We need a third fatty!

[john316]

What is the word on Hattiesburg? My boss has family there.

[OXENinFLA]

I had no idea they started putting street lights out in the Gulf to direct boats..

Waves from Hurricane Katrina crash against a boat washed onto Highway 80 in Gulfport, Miss.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Yep, but it's been housed in Slidell forever, to minimize ground clutter off of NO's highrise district.

[RushCrush]

Ok he can stay outside but he needs to be off camera.
As another poster said, he gives people the idea that it is okay to be out in a cat 4 hurricane. That is just dangerous. Let him be stupid on his own time.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

CNN reports that the worst is over for NO.

[battlegearboat]

Spark it up.

[cyborg]

wow!

[spectre]

We have reservations for next Monday...LOL!!!!!!

sw

[Michael Goldsberry]

FOX: Katrina now a cat 3.

[jeffers]

"The New Orleans Doppler either just took a hit or lost power."

I haven't been able to pull up SRV imagery for an hour, but Base Reflectivity updated as late as 9 am.

[apackof2]

Storm just downgraded to Category 3

[Aggie Mama]

It's a huge resort/casino. You can see their billboards all up and down I-10

[Broker]

Folks up The Tennessee Valley region might get ready for this big girl. Big trees down with flooding. Be prepared!

[NautiNurse]

I know exactly where you are describing. Don't know about people in the parking garages. Nothing would surprise me at this point.

Remember the barge/tanker that crashed into the Hilton years ago?

[Lazamataz]

You mispelled "catastrophic computer virus". Hope this helps.

Just for that I'm not inviting you to the leather and bondage fashion show.

And I know how much you wanted to model the ball gag.

[Squantos]

As a bride to be ya need to beware the antenna jokes !

[gopwinsin04]

Good news.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Saints will play the entire season on the road I guess."

If the SuperDome is damaged and unsafe, can they play in Baton Rouge? Doesn't LSU have a stadium there?

[WestCoastGal]

My new neighbors just came over, their son is here visiting. His house is in SW NO. No idea how his home is doing.

I'm going to check TWC station now.