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

[alarm rider]

I was just thinking about that song.

[SittinYonder]

oh god, why are the headlights of that chevy truck ON!!!

I noticed that, too. Wonder what they'll find when they dig it out.

[Peach]

Big chunk of roof landed 3 feet from Steven Harrigan. He's lea ving area for now.

[battlegearboat]

That nut Harrigan is out of his cage again.

[Diddle E. Squat]

When Shep talks about persons on their roof to escape flooding, he's probably talking about the east/southeast section where the levee broke. It is the smallest of 3 separate areas of the city with their own levee systems creating 3 different bowls. So that flooding shouldn't affect where he's at downtown/French Quarter. With the winds from the north and west now, any major flooding (besides of course the rain) where he is at will come from Lake Pontchartrain's waters overtopping or breaching the level on the north or west.

[silentknight]

That is old. FOX is replaying their old crap.

[Steve_Seattle]

"They dodged a bullet? Damage is extensive and the city is now flooding. Not sure he should be saying that. Geesh real stupid."

Compared to some of the speculation last night, they WERE lucky. I heard one guy predict 50,000 dead, CNN's Aaron Brown said we might "lose a city," and a CNN expert (a professor) said there was a 50/50 chance that the city would be virtually destroyed and flooded with toxic wastes. And almost everyone was predicting major flooding in 50-75% of the city. Maybe I'm wrong, but so far nothing that's actually happened seems anywhere near those scenarios.

[bwteim]

It's a classic.

[cyborg]

That's a repeat clip I think. I recognize the whoooooah and the camera dude wiping the lens.

[Drumbo]

Louisiana 1927
~ Randy Newman ~

[ohioWfan]

Repeat. I recognized the "WHOAAAA" from a previous report. :)

[al baby]

They dodged a bullet? Damage is extensive and the city is now flooding. Not sure he should be saying that. Geesh real stupid

THis just in Florida falls to George Bush

[1Old Pro]

Cajun white types? In New Orleans? Don't know much about the area, do ya?

let me restate, many of the folks looked like Carville.

[NormsRevenge]

There goes that wacky Harrigan again...or is this a repeat segment?

Repeat..

He's nuts.. standing by that sign.. He could have been swatted like a fly.. hhmmm? swatted like a fly..


Where's Whore-aldo when ya need him? lol

[ohioWfan]

LOL! GMTA.

[Ranxerox]

"Only up to my shoulders around here Shep..."

Note: This is NOT a hurricane Katrina photo.

[dirtboy]

When the news is overblown and exxagerated, I will point it out.

You don't friggin KNOW what is overblown. I'm watching several radar and sat maps - and the danger point for surge in NO was when the eyewall was due east of the city. The winds might have reduced, but there was still a lot of danger at that point.

So, once again, please either post some content or lurk.

[cyborg]

Well check this genius on Fox in the water!

[cfo]

Refineries capable of processing some 1.6 million barrels a day have shut down, they include:

-- Chevron's 325,000 barrel a day refinery in Pascagoula, Miss.

-- ConocoPhillips' 255,000 barrel a day Alliance refinery, south of New Orleans.

-- Valero Energy Corp.'s 260,000 barrel a day refinery in St. Charles.

-- Murphy Oil Corp.'s 120,000 barrel a day refinery in Meraux, La.

-- Exxon Mobil Corp.'s 183,000 barrel a day refinery in Chalmette, La.

-- Motiva Enterprises' 225,000-barrel a day Norco refinery, and its 235,000-barrel-a-day Convent refinery.

-- Marathon's 245,000 barrel a day Garyville, La. refinery.

[cgk]

Seriously?

I am WAY lost on this. From what I've heard/read about hurricanes - it takes a couple hours to pass. The radar shows the hurricane still in the area.

I've heard flooding to ceilings & rooftops in N.O., seen pics of structural collapse in N.O., heard a levee broke in N.O., it's still raining, still strong winds (per radar), and they're going home? I am very confused.