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

[dirtboy]

There's probably flooding building in the lowest-lying areas as the rainfall from the entire bowl of the city drains down to those points. And it will probably keep rising, although nowhere near as bad if the surge had topped the levees.

And hopefully they hold and don't get a significant breach.

[cyborg]

Whore-aldo was on the phone yesterday on Fox. Isn't he still in Aruba? They'll never find Natalee now with this beast of a storm. He should come and make our lives miserable over here now *LOL*

[cajungirl]

I love that song,,that is the one Marcia Ball sings. I thought it kwas the streets of plaquemine, now I remember it was streets of Evangeline. Senior moment.

[maggief]

Wow, didn't notice that the headlights were on.

[guinnessman]

I just turned on Fox.

When did Bill Hemmer leave CNN and join Fox?

[Hand em their arse]

HA!! "Uh, can ya hear me now?? Gooood!"

[Lazamataz]

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.

Jeez. Did I wander onto the EveryoneIsReallyPissedOffHere thread, or what?

[kinghorse]

Of course the majority of people seeking emergency shelter are black. According to a recent census, blacks are the overwhelming majority in the city. Theater of the obvious?

[ohioWfan]

Well check this genius on Fox in the water!

He must not have gone through Safety Town.

Water + Power lines = Danger

[cfo]

[No Blue States]

""It's not as bad as the (forecast) last night," Levitan said, referring to forecasts that were based on Sunday afternoon's projections of Katrina's path."

The storm landed as a 4 instead of a Cat 5, and NO was west of eye.The forward speed of Katrina pick up.
Without those 3 factors this would have been much worse..even though it isnt over yet.

[LibSnubber]

If you have (or get) any information on Slidell and what's going on there right now, PLEASE ping me. I've got family who evacuated from there and they're worried because they don't have a clue as to what's going on. Thanks in advance.

[bwteim]

Thanks!

[battlegearboat]

Hey, is that a Mardi Gras floating down Canal Street?

[maggief]

I hope no one is inside. :(

[Mercat]

I still see the empty southbound lanes and wish that they had been full of busses and ambulances taking people north. I'm praying all the retirement homes and hospitals were evacuated first thing.

[WoodstockCat]

Portions of the telephone system in metropolitan New Orleans failed about 9:30 a.m., further isolating the city as Katrina's center passed.

Remote phone switching stations and wireless phone antennas, or cell sites, switched to backup battery or generator power after losing power from electrical lines. But many of those backup power sources were temporary.

Bu mid-morning, dialing into and out of the New Orleans area was becoming increasingly difficult.

[NormsRevenge]

LOL.. He used to work hurricanes and then withBabwa Wawa so he's used to lots of windage and spittle flying thru the air.. ;-)

[unojook]

he came on board this morning.....just hired, and started today...

[1Old Pro]

I guess I just saw a lot of human beings. But that's just me.

I agree, it was a diverse representation of people, probably a fair representation of the population there.