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

[FeliciaCat]

Thanks for the pics! amazing and horrible.

[1Old Pro]

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

So is he saying that Bourbon Street is under over 15 feet of water???

[Chasaway]

Think I just heard (WDSY streaming) that the storm surge in/around Gulfport is @ 25 ft. near Hwy. 90

[Coldwater Creek]

Oh Lord!!!!!! I cannot imagine my panic. Kids have been transfered to Pensacola. I had no trouble with the Mobile Bay tunnel. I have a cataract, the lights give me a bad time, but the lights in Mobile are on the side and I can see perfectly and it is really short.

[Pyro7480]

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

Angels, guide them and protect them!

[OleMissRebelYell]

There were some trees downed last night in Arlington/Lakeland... perhaps that's what's being talked about?

[rwfromkansas]

looks like the storm is over there already????

[jayef]

OK . . . let me break this down for the ignorant people who keep saying the worst is over. Hurricanes are more than a wind event. New Orleans is in for SEVERAL MORE HOURS of rain and heavy winds. Stuff that has already been breeched and damaged will be FURTHER DAMAGED as winds, REGARDLESS OF STRENGTH, continue. North wind across Lake Ponchartrain may still drive water over levees or breach them completely, allowing water to pour into New Orleans and its Western Suburbs. People in Mississippi and Alabama will die today as flood waters rise. The surges in Mississippi and Alabama haven't even hit yet. THIS IS JUST BEGINNING!!!

[Calpernia]

Pay no attention to those heroes in camo...

[don-o]

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

Dodging bullets, they are. Lord help these poor folks!

[deport]

Gulfport, MS

[don-o]

Thank you!!!!!

[burzum]

CNN has said that the radar in NO is out. They have said that the radar images on the south west are not accurate.

[cyborg]

Wow... Just because the worst is over for NO, doesn't mean I'm going to stop watching news. Monday is Hurrince Katrina day for me. I went to the beach yesterday and waves were huge. No one swimming except for the surfers.

[kinghorse]

Maybe it's just coincidence but then again maybe not. Althea, Camille, Betsey, these things seem to hate marshland and do a jog left or right to avoid it. Mississippi coastline will once again probably get destroyed.

I remember as a kid in the 60's taking a trip down there and seeing a tanker on the wrong side of the road. Whoa.

[sarasota]

The rains will send the flooding into overdrive.

[CindyDawg]

It's hard to kill mesquites either. Another southern thing.

[pnz1]

It's cloudy and rainy in Middle TN..

[Peach]

MSNBC: Boats thrown into buildings in Gulfport, MS.

[cgk]

pics of some of the structural collapse in N.O.:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/photos/L/LADM10908291450.html?SITE=CADIU&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

http://hosted.ap.org/photos/L/LADM10808291449-big.jpg

(I believe they're small enough to post, but didn't want to risk it.)