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

[fhlh]

Doubt it, the Superdome will be repaired and up and running way before the Bowl games in January.

[wardaddy]

Tulane once had the largest purely steel structure stadium in the world...the original Sugar Bowl.

I saw the Saints there and got Gayle Sayers autograph...after the game

yes...they played Da Bears....and lost naturally.

Dempsey was still da kicker.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

There is a mardi gras parade called the Krewe of Arabi...and it starts in Arabi!

[KJC1]

From ABC news stream: The fire alarm is going off in the Superdome. Seems like just a malfunction type thing, and more of an annoyance than anything.

[AppyPappy]

Here, knock yourself out

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1471194/posts

[Calpernia]

This one is impressive too

http://www.foxnews.com/photo_essay/photoessay_565_images/082905_katrina15.jpg

[nevergore]

Awwww...Laz started it...

NeverGore :^)

[Frapster]

I'm a distant cousin of Mr. Long.

[No Blue States]

Great sat loops fast:

http://www.cira.colostate.edu/ramm/rmsdsol/TROPICAL.html

[NautiNurse]

125 people in the 9th Ward have had to climb up onto the roofs of their homes due to rising water.

This is why they told people who chose to stay to have a pick axe ready, so they could break out onto their roofs.

[twigs]

They do this on every station...It isn't just Fox that does it.

You're right. But I think it is irresponsible reporting. Especially when they devote most of their attention to the initial landfall and the real danger and loss of life is usually later. Plus Accuweather predicted yeterday that if Katrina moved east that the counterclockwise motion of the post-action will push Lake Ponchartrain into NO. I think people who stay to ride out the storms do so because they're thinking they can survive the initial hit. And most can--reporters do. It's the later problems that will get them. I would like to see more reporting done on that. I did find it yesterday, but it was tucked in between the dramatic coverage.

[headsonpikes]

The latest bulletin:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT2+shtml/232359.shtml

[McGruff]

Did they let Steve Harrigan out again?

[Sam Cree]

OTOH, fairly soon the winds will be westerlies, which could blow water out of the lake towards the Gulf, which would be a positive.

[FeliciaCat]

So your a chubby chaser? If thats the case there is no hope for us Laz...sorry.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: (USS Alabama in Mobile Bay) "Battleships are reletively capable of handling a hurricane...

"...IF they are at sea AND under power AND properly manned. I wouldn't want to be on one just tied up to a pier."



Or one loose and without any power...

[1Old Pro]

the Superdome will be repaired and up and running way before the Bowl games in January.

Who said it won't be up and running in September?

[teenyelliott]

Is the crater smoking

Cannot predict now.

Concentrate and ask again.

[jayef]

New Orleans is getting hammered and conditions are still worsening. I have an Aunt riding this thing out in Slidell and they are not enjoying things at all.

[AppyPappy]

I bet the water rises for another few hours too. No place for it to go.