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

[Hand em their arse]

Laz, i certainly took it as it was intended... i appreciate the "doom" break... apparently, i didn't realize if i posted an occasional joke to break the tension, i seem to not care about those freepers in harm's way... my mistake, i guess

[Flyer]

KNOCK IT OFF

Bump that!

[Northern Yankee]

Your asking the wrong person. I don't know.

I guess that makes two if us! ; )

[maggief]

John Volkmann (L) and his wife Kathy of Pass Christian, Mississippi, run for shelter as a piece of sheetmetal flies through the air as Hurricane Katrina hits a hotel in Gulfport, Mississippi August 29, 2005. The storm made landfall early this morning, hitting the coastal gulf city of New Orleans, Louisiana. REUTERS/Frank Polich

[LibSnubber]

Fox: Eight feet of water in the city just south of Lake P... Water still rising.

Well, there probably goes three relatives homes - including mom's and brother's.

[spycatcher]

Yeah, that was a great photo!

[dirtboy]

Laz apologized and dropped the humor. Now more noise is coming from people piling on him than he initially created. Can we please try to keep this thread on topic, as news is going to be coming in fast and furious?

[Abigail Adams]

Roof to roof on high-rise buildings? Is he spiderman???

Brian Williams saying it's still too windy to do more than just step out the dome door.

[kinghorse]

just hush and you'll be fine. nothing more infuriating than some bozo (and you are acting just like one on this thread) keeping all the attention on themselves while adding zip,zero, zilch.

reports are coming in re Chalmette and it's not looking good at all.

[DocRock]

Thank you

[eyespysomething]

Looks like Biloxi is taking quite the beating.

[spectre]

Morning..DJ. :) (chit-chat, LOL.)

sw

[Quilla]

After an incredible rain, my manufacturing plant flooded. One customer drove his truck into the plant creating waves with white caps and water started coming into the offices. I had to put up a "NO WAKE ZONE" sign.

[aft_lizard]

He is going roof to roof by high rise builsings. Don't know how.>>

Think Streets of Paradise with Sylvester Stallone?

[Howlin]

Noggin doesn't have reporters down there?

[Abigail Adams]

Thanks for the pics! Keep 'em coming.

[bobdsmith]

Now where is this swarm of snakes we were promised?

[Kryptonite]

Wonder if there'll be a news crew at Brett Favre's house in Mississippi . . .

[maggief]

A street lamp cover rolls down the sidewalk in downtown New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina rolls in. ...