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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII
NOAA - NHC ^ | 29 August 2005 | NOAA - NHC

Posted on 08/29/2005 2:47:45 AM PDT by 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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: hurricane; hurricanekatrina; katrina; livehurricanekatrina; tropical; weather
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To: txflake

Don't quote me on this (unless I'm right, of course), but I think now is the worst time because the winds are blowing south across the lake and into NO.


2,641 posted on 08/29/2005 9:20:26 AM PDT by Termite_Commander (Warning: Cynical Right-winger Ahead)
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To: Abigail Adams

I'm in NM. Employee just came in and said gas stations all over town have increased price of gasoline by 20 cents/gallon in the past two hours.


2,642 posted on 08/29/2005 9:20:29 AM PDT by CedarDave (VietNam Vet Remembers -- This Time SUPPORT the Troops, COMPLETE the Mission)
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To: Leapfrog

Thank you for the updates.. I cannot get MSNBC live feed to run continuously and I am cubicle bound.


2,643 posted on 08/29/2005 9:20:31 AM PDT by brothers4thID (I have knocked on door of this man's soul- and found someone home.)
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To: WestCoastGal
He is going roof to roof by high rise builsings. Don't know how.

Perhaps he was bitten by a radioactive spider

2,644 posted on 08/29/2005 9:20:38 AM PDT by bobdsmith
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To: All

State Senator from La, saying Bernard Parish is 25 ft underwater.


2,645 posted on 08/29/2005 9:20:42 AM PDT by Smogger
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To: Toespi

Are you stalking me? It sure seems like it.

Take that somewhere else.


2,646 posted on 08/29/2005 9:20:48 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: cgk

25 feet of water in St. Bernard Parish! Houses with people trapped in attics are now topped with water. Going house to house with army ducks (?).


2,647 posted on 08/29/2005 9:20:56 AM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: Lazamataz

Geez Laz. You could have make three or four more jokes in the time it took you to apologize!


2,648 posted on 08/29/2005 9:20:57 AM PDT by Doohickey (If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)
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To: leadpenny; Lazamataz
You couldn't have been all that.

You couldn't have been all that bad.

2,649 posted on 08/29/2005 9:21:03 AM PDT by leadpenny
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To: dirtboy; jveritas
From post 2313:

"It's a very dangerous situation. I've been doing this for 15 years, and [I've] been Mr. Cantore's producer for many hurricanes, and I've never seen anything like this. This is probably the scariest situation we've ever been in -- just the sudden rise of water and how fast. They said we were good here for 27, 30 feet [of storm surge] -- they've never seen anything like it. They thought we were completely safe.

This has NOT been overhyped.

2,650 posted on 08/29/2005 9:21:04 AM PDT by TomB ("The terrorist wraps himself in the world's grievances to cloak his true motives." - S. Rushdie)
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To: cgk

Your 3y.o is probably more qualified to broadcast the weather than most currently reporting ;)

:)


2,651 posted on 08/29/2005 9:21:07 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Abigail Adams

I was just thinking that! That poor guy! its a wonder he can stand...are the winds still really strong?


2,652 posted on 08/29/2005 9:21:18 AM PDT by FeliciaCat (I like my money where I can see it...hanging in my closet.)
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To: truthandlife
"Shep Smith just said he saw a Rick's Cabaret go down the street.

God does know what he is doing (LOL)."


lol.... he said the sign from Rick's Cabaret, not the whole building.
2,653 posted on 08/29/2005 9:21:18 AM PDT by monday
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To: Abigail Adams

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

That's the mental image I got. Just bounding from rooftop to rooftop.

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

Brian Williams is no Steve Harrigan.


2,654 posted on 08/29/2005 9:21:18 AM PDT by kenth (north Georgia mountains - prayers for all in the path of Katrina)
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To: blam

Thank you so very much for checking in with us--send him all of our best wishes, and let us know if there is anything you need. You are in our thoughts and prayers.


2,655 posted on 08/29/2005 9:21:18 AM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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To: eyespysomething

TEN feet of water in downtown Mobile.


2,656 posted on 08/29/2005 9:21:20 AM PDT by silentknight
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To: Diddle E. Squat

"Heard that the worst threat of overtopping from the north should be over within an hour or so. Still a danger from the west for longer, because of the wind shifting from that way, the theory of lots of Lake P
water being pushed SW and S into the spillway, and the west side levee being the lowest at 10'.

Hopefully it won't overtop."

That's good news, but my concerns prioritize breaches above topping, though both are would be far worse than wave topping.

Until those levels go down and the levees resume a consistency with more integrity than toothpaste, I won't rest easy. We're seeing imagery of 3' of ponding downtown now, any additional water will be competing for space with that.


2,657 posted on 08/29/2005 9:21:31 AM PDT by jeffers
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To: BurbankKarl

Bump..


2,658 posted on 08/29/2005 9:21:35 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife (God Save New Orleans)
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To: Johnny Crab

Our prayers to you and the refugee families you have given shelter.
Thank you Johnny Crab.


2,659 posted on 08/29/2005 9:21:41 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Lizarde
I don't think the danger is over with the Lake but I am no expert...

The immediate surge danger is receeding - winds are now out of the west which will push the surge out of Ponchatrain.

However, if there is any kind of breach, if it grows the lake could flood through it. We'll have to see what happens when crews get out to inspect the levees. Hopefully there was only some wave overtopping and no serious erosion or damage.

2,660 posted on 08/29/2005 9:21:50 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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