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

[Freebird Forever]

I am never posting to Free Republic ever again so long as I live.

Well maybe a little.

Okay maybe more than a little.

It appears that John Kerry has hacked your FR account.

[spectre]

Don't you DARE stop posting those amazing shots! :)

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[Abigail Adams]

Please keep reporting what you are all hearing on Fox/CNN/MSNBC for those of us who don't have cable. Thanks!

[Republic]

....Need one thread for hurricane news and another for children, asses and morons.

And from the tone of your post, there is no doubt you will flock to the later.

Can't stand a bit of chit chat and good humor? Try a different forum!

[fooman]

these storm chasers take big chances. 00 will come sometimes.

[Not A Snowbird]

abandoned N.O. patrol car Canal Street

Hmm. Not as bad as it could be, but still... our NO Field Office is located on Canal Street. Hope they all had sense enough to get out of town.

[bwteim]

Didn't mean to be flip. People live along the water/coast, get hammered, they rebuild, and unless they build up higher or bring in tons of soil, the elevation remains unchanged.

[CedarDave]

MSNBC now live on the net.

[paulat]

LOUISIANA PARISH MAP:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/laparmap.html

[lasisra]

Unfortunately, it probably will.

Storm surge to the east of the storm does not peak until several hours after the eye passes, as the onshore winds keep piling up more and more water.

On the coast, the rising water is accompanied by pounding waves.

But it's really surreal in the bays and other protected waters. For hours after the peak of the storm's fury, the water just quietly rises - but there are almost no waves. Many a bay front homeowner around here has watched in awe and dread as the water crept up their yards and into their homes.

I wish I had a dollar for everyone I've heard say:

"I thought it was over, but then the water just started rising..."

I watched it myself during Dennis. It was quite an experience.

[Northern Yankee]

Where's the eye of the hurricane?

They were talking about winds changing to the north, once the eye has passed, making it more of a dangerous situation.

Is that still the case?

Not much on the radio at the moment.

[maggief]

[Spktyr]

USS Alabama appears to have left port. Oh, ****! 48 kilotons of steel wandering around without a hand at the rudder...

[Diddle E. Squat]

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

Well posting dozens of tasteless sex jokes while the worst of the storm is hitting New Orleans and we aren't getting much info as to what is or isn't happening there might just have been a very bad idea. Where is your self control? Did you really have to spam this thread, when there are thousands of others? Is it really too difficult for you to exercise a bit of self-restraint and act like an adult for a few hours?

Are you aware of how desperate some of the posts were over the last few days from freepers in the New Orleans area? For now this is the only thread for them to get early info on their homes and relatives, with the VERY REAL threat of many drownings? It may be some of their homes with water up to the rooftops(which has been confirmed for a couple of hours now). While your home is safe, why clutter this news thread with meaningless trashy banter just because it isn't you who is suffering or under real anxiety? Some freepers have lost most of what they own. Some may have lost neighbors. Is your own desire for self gratification through attention-seeking jokes anywhere near as important, that it needs to take place here? Ever consider the others who are suffering?

[Petronski]

I used something called clorox [!] and now the stains gone but so is the pattern where i spot cleaned it Im in deep do do

Yes. Yes you are.

[battlegearboat]

Does this mean you're going to start reading the articles?

[RobFromGa]

ANWR was stripped out of the Energy Bill

It's in the Budget Bill (I said that didn't I, if I said Energy Bill, my bad), it was put there to get past the sure filibuster if it remained in the Energy Bill.

[hoosiermama]

You still have power? Glad you're still posting!

[TheBigB]

Live feed from the Mobile, Al police scanners...

http://www.al.com/mobilepolice/