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

[silentknight]

Reports of massive flooding in Mississippi and Alabama.

Not many freeper reports coming in from those areas? Seems like everyone is talking about New Orleans. These other areas are getting hit very hard.

[Colofornian]

Hopefully, the residents of the Retirement Home were evacuated to a safe location prior to the storm.

No, they weren't. See my post 2,378. The home's mgr. was bragging about the ability of this home to withstand such weather. They were even saying that meals would be served on schedule (business-as-usual).

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Wish someone would post that pic and caps over at du.

[lifacs]

try scrolling up to the top of this thread and click on the link "click here to read article", it will take you to all the links pertaining to Katrina, including streams.

[Bahbah]

He said he is going to do specials for FOX and would not be anchoring everyday

I hope it is because that is what he wants to be doing. I think he is very good and will miss him.

[shield]

Sounds like the Tony Snow deal...hiring the liberal loon 'Chris Wallace' really made me mad...

It appears one by one their hiring liberals replacing our conservative favorites...

[Abigail Adams]

ABC affiliate is saying no emergency services at this time as the storm is still raging. God help those people on their roofs or in their attics!

[Malacoda]

I swear I'm sticking to my guns on my Cantore Theory of Catastrophic Weather:

"If Jim Cantore does a weather report from anywhere in your vicinity, get out your Rosary, because you're screwed."

I'll be keeping an eye out for him in my area this winter, that's for sure.

You should get some rest -- you've done an ass-kicking job, but you must be all done in!

[GummyIII]

Special thanks are extended to the United States Air Force Reserve hurricane hunter crews stationed at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi Mississippi...who have been flying continuous missions through Katrina even as their families and homes are being seriously impacted by this hurricane.

Bless each and everyone, and their families, too!

[jveritas]

You are the one who is overhyping and exaggerating, in this case as to how it was reported.

Did you watch the news yesterday?

[cajungirl]

Great New Orleans sense of humor there.

[Trust but Verify]

You are free to leave here anytime you want.

[NautiNurse]

They didn't evacuate or bring a pick axe. Very sad.

[BurbankKarl]

what building collaped in N.O.?

[Gondring]

But if we lose refining capacity, what would be the point? It's still crude oil.

Oh, but it's symbolic, and that's what counts! </sarc>

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Catch this VISIBLE SATELLITE LOOP while you can.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/float-vis-loop.html

[jayef]

I'm done with you!

[dirtboy]

Can y'all PLEASE take it to another thread - start a joke/chat thread if you want? There's gonna be a flood of news coming out over the next few hours and we need to keep the signal-to-noise ratio up on this thread.

[Robert A Cook PE]

IF New Orleans were sinking due to building weight, ONLY the heaviest buildings would be going down: The WHOLE AREA is lowering (a very little bit due to ground water pumping - that's what began submerging parts of Baytown TX back in the early 70's) but NOT ENOUGH water is pumped out to cause the whole rea to keep going down.

Bldg foundations ONLY spread the load out in the immediate area of the building (most of which is spreadout BETWEEN the pilings, NOT even into adjacent bldg's, (much less into adjacent city blocks!).

More important, downtown NO is a very, very small area: less than 4 square miles. Most of which is 2-4 story buildings! (Very light weight, geologically speaking. There are only a few high-rises, and something like the Long Bridge weighs more than the buildings.)

[RobFromGa]

How about another push for ANWR?

My understanding is that ANWR drilling is coming in the Budget bill, and it cannot be filibustered there.