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

[RushCrush]

I heard Landrieu (sp?) say that!

[Coldwater Creek]

I know! But when the wind and rain comes later today or tomorrow, the millions of self-pruning pecan trees are going to be everywhere. Add that to the detesible Bradford Pear's and we will have a mess on our hands.

[gopwinsin04]

Thank you.

[FeliciaCat]

Yep. Moon the Hurricane. How many Hurricane's has Mike Keller had I wonder???? ;)

[dfwgator]

The Sheik of Arabi is going to need a paddle.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Believe you are getting into very, very poor taste...

[dirtboy]

Some guys on FR like the drama, even if it means bad things. They do not like to hear good news.

Do me a favor and shut up. I'm posting what I see on other websites as are other people. I'd like nothing better than this storm to disappear. If you aren't going to contribute to the content of the thread, just lurk.

[maggief]

Vortex Data Message

000
URNT12 KNHC 291454
VORTEX DATA MESSAGE
A. 29/14:29:30Z
B. 30 deg 07 min N
089 deg 37 min W
C. 700 mb 2461 m
D. NA kt
E. NA deg nm
F. 157 deg 126 kt
G. 73 deg 027 nm
H. 927 mb
I. 11 C/ 3042 m
J. 17 C/ 3049 m
K. 16 C/ NA
L. OPEN SW
M. E06/30/24
N. 12345/ 7
O. 0.02 / 1 nm
P. AF300 2212A KATRINA OB 22
MAX FL WIND 128 KT E QUAD 13:33:50 Z
EYE RAGGED

[Admin Moderator]

That's enough. Keep the jokes clean.

[SunnySide]

SunnySide just revealed to me that he is a hugely overweight queer who doesn't want anyone to know either of these things.
DON'T SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT SUNNYSIDE! It's a secret!

..........

aww how quaint. The Laz is Spazzin

Signed,
Proud Hetero woman. (the Envy of fatty fags)

[ReyDM]

Be careful interpreting radar images esp. composites like this one.

There is attenuation due to the fact that the radar cannot "see" through the heavy reflectivity along the north eyewall. I believe the some of the "gap" you are seeing on googles site is not real, but rather due to attenuation as radar sites to the north and east cannot accurately infer what is going on. The satellite imagery may be more reliable, given that all of the observing sites around NO are no longer reporting.

[chudogg]

NO! ALL National Guard Units are deployed in Iraq and stop lossed for years!

[RobFromGa]

On the radio (WSB) here in Atlanta they just said "total structural damage in New Orleans"-- they are not giving a positive report at all.

[auto power]

After this ordeal is over, I can assure you that the French Quarter will be coming up with one heck of a drink called "Hurricane Katrina."

[Pyro7480]

Zorak: (off camera) Whatch y'all doin'?
Thom Yorke: (laughs)
Space Ghost: "Y'all"?
Zorak: Yeah.
Space Ghost: Where'd you learn to talk like that?
Zorak: Hattiesburg.
Space Ghost: What were you doing in Hattiesburg?
Zorak: Kickin' it.
Space Ghost: Oh really.
Zorak: Yep.
Space Ghost: Well, that's interesting.
Zorak: It is interesting.
Space Ghost: Thom, is that interesting?
Thom Yorke: No.
Space Ghost: See, Zorak? We're not interested.
Moltar: (from control room, in his DJ voice, with funky background music) Well, I happen to think that it's very very interesting!

[dirtboy]

C'mon, Laz, that's enough of that joke.

[dfwgator]

The question is if the flooding is due to heavy rains or levee breaks?

[Lazamataz]

Believe you are getting into very, very poor taste...

Prolly. But I tend to strike out at those who strike out at me and love those who love me.

[Coldwater Creek]

The Mobile Bay tunnel is short and well lit. The tunnels at Hampton Roads are another matter. For years I hava always thought that the terrorist would blow them up when I was in there, or that the car would stall.