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

[HoHoeHeaux]

NO still isn't out of harms way. Those poor people have misery to face. I can't even imagine what they will go home to, and some won't have much left of their homes.

I keep thinking of the poor pets that had to be left behind. Me dog cowers and shivers during a thunder storm. I hate to think what the helpless critters are suffering right now. And the childern. They will have phobias forever.

This is still a major tragedy.

[Sam Cree]

That radar picture does make it look like the worst is past. However it appears to show northerly winds on the lake. Soon to be westerlies, though.

I think NO is going to be really wrecked. But not destroyed I am hopeful.

[kinghorse]

Releasing reserves equal to stalled production would be appropriate.

[Pyro7480]

That's not unexpected. At least it hasn't flooded there yet...

[wardaddy]

Good.....

I think the average freeper these days is about 23...lol

which is not a bad thing, if they will pick up some cultural conservatism along the way as they age.

just my opinion

I went to bed at 4.

Looks like things tuned down a bit.

I figured they might once Katrina started sucking up the boot of the River Delta

[rwfromkansas]

Since the storm is weaker, I think the chance of the disastrous flooding in NO is much less.

But, we won't know until a few hours from now.

[TheBigB]

Haven't seen any...

[Strategerist]

Worse in Bay St. Louis than Gulfport, but as best I can tell not a single network put anyone in Bay St. Louis...

[Michael Goldsberry]

Fox: Shep reports people in NO standing on their rooftops in hurricane force winds in order to escape the rising water.

[mewzilla]

But they don't yet how badly production's been affected. I wish they'd just keep their powder dry 'til they do know.

[cyborg]

Hey how's the weather in TN?

[cksharks]

The fox news channel just showed a reporter standing in the catholic school yard in Bayou La Batre al. It was blowing 75 mph w/guststo 95 mph.I was talking to my Brother about 2 mls from there and he said it was blowing as hard as Frederick. I attended grade school in th 40 and 50's at that Cathlic school.

[Lovergirl]

As per Fox news..Levee broke in NO.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Me: Believe you are getting into very, very poor taste... (post 1922)

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

A look at your FR homepage rant makes me kind of understand why you would make such a post... But it is still in very bad taste considering it says "NO personal attacks" right under where you type your post...

[Pyro7480]

It appears that the eye is completely onshore, just east of the MS/LA border.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Personally I think Shep is making a fool of himself.

Someone should tell him that there can only be one Geraldo ;-)

[dirtboy]

But they don't yet how badly production's been affected. I wish they'd just keep their powder dry 'til they do know.

Bush announcing this should help keep the crude futures from going bonkers.

[Stultis]

What good is tapping the SPR going to do without increased refinery capacity?

I dunno fer sure, but aren't there refined fuels in the SPR as well as oil?

[TheBigB]

My alma mater in Starkville's going to get a battering today...winds up to 60mph tonight, sez weather.com.