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

[eyespysomething]

Prayers continuing for all those still in danger, and there seems to be a lot still.

[cyborg]

Whooooah... I'll never be able to get Harrigan's whooooah out of my head today.

[sissyjane]

This is probably a dumb question....Isn't ALL of NO south of lake Ponchetrain?

How much of the city has 8 feet of water and white caps?

[BurbankKarl]

Entergy estimated 1 month to turn power on.

[BurbankKarl]

Yes, the lake is north of NO....

[cyborg]

Probably expected to stay up in the attic. Not good with no roof! I hope he gets there without getting killed by flying objects.

[Republic]

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

What does that mean...is a Parish and entire town, county or what? Thanks! (Do you have population numbers for this Parish?)

[BurbankKarl]

The mayor said there were a lot of reports of people on their roofs or in their attics

[RushCrush]

Wish someone could capture that "Whoaa" sound so I could make it my instant message sound on AOL.

[Diddle E. Squat]

FEMA housing director from Metarie, NW side of the metro, says no major destruction(collapse type damage) visible to him, winds about 40 mph, but hears it is noticeably worse in the east side. Copters will rescue persons from rooftops once the winds get below 40 mph on the east side.

[AmericanMade1776]

What happened to Harrigan....he has not been seen on Fox for a while?

[Abigail Adams]

Saying the city's electrical system/main transmitter (?) has major damage, which hasn't happened in previous storms. Will take at least a month to get power back on.

[MinuteGal]

Oh, no. Here I am in a sunny northern state, and my cable just went out.

No TV. I can't believe it.

Thank God for this forum.

Leni

[publana]

I have not posted at all on this thread. I have relatives in NO and am anxious for reports. I, for one, would be appreciative if the chit-chat was taken elsewhere. Please have a care for those of us that are dependent upon this thread for news.

Sorry to add to the garbage. :/

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Solution;

1) Shoot all environmentalists.

2) Build more refineries.

3) Step #2 cannot happen without step #1.

[PatriotCJC]

DITTO!!!

[cyborg]

Did some freeper just say they raised gas twenty cents in the last two hour? I mean down South in Katrina country. That's crazy!

[Joe 6-pack]

Louisiana has Parishes in lieu of counties.

[sageb1]

"Grow up and just scroll past anything that you do not want to read!!!!!!!!"

Agree. After all, that's what the rest of us grown-ups do.