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

[HoHoeHeaux]

As reported by Fox News about 11:15CST, Major levee breach on east bank of the Industrial Canal has flooded eastern New Orleans and the New Orleans lower 9th ward above many first floor windows, and up to ceilings in most houses. Reporter is stuck on an overpass and reports water topping U-Haul delivery trucks on the roadways. Also reports whitecaps in the streets and lapping onto houses. Let's hope the Lake Ponchartrain levees hold, as we are reaching a critical point with water being forced south by severe north winds at this point.

http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?showtopic=48218 Source

[OB1kNOb]

"20 building collapses in NO"

News source, please?

[Coldwater Creek]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

[cyborg]

AMEN

[cgk]

You're probably right. I'm getting my news all over online, so haven't caught any pump/levee updates.

And it's still pouring rain - I hope those people trapped in attics can get out!

[WestCoastGal]

" I heard somewhere that the levee behind East Jefferson hospital has broken and that the hospital itself is flooding."

I heard/saw that report upthread somewhere. The windows began seeping then water started coming in. It was unknown if it was from rain or flooding.

[NCC-1701]

The USS Drum has been moved to an area on land on the port side aft of the USS Alabama. Saw it on Google Earth. I heard someone on the radio ask about the 'Bama and how it would fare. They stated it was sitting on/in a mud deck and it would take something a lot bigger than Katrina to refloat it. I'm wondering about the aircraft on static display near the 'Bama. There is a B-52 that looks like it could have taken wing with the winds that were available. Hope everything's safe there and the other affected areas.

Godspeed to those in harms way.

[Toespi]

No Howlin, relax, you are not being stalked, just pointing out some inconsistencies that I have noticed from you.

[Steve_Seattle]

"What's with the sniping, whining, and recriminations?"

You talk as if that's unusual. I've been on countless threads where multiple personal brawls on side issues drowned out the main topic of the thread.

[mware]

This posted from another thread.

by janetjanet998

we just had a mini tsunami... New Olreans is flooding as I type this as winds turn north off the lake..

downtown mobile under water..record surge into Mobile Bay

J.C. from the weather channel...surge is 6 feet high in the 1st floor of his hotel which sits 27 feet above sea level..said it came up all at once..

[Marysecretary]

My close friend bought a renovated double wide in the same lot she was in before when the himmicane destroyed her last one. I just don't get it...

[jeffers]

"To: BurbankKarl
"uh, the City is flooding...."

I'm afraid the whole concept of building a major city below sea level is tragically flawed."

It's too soon to say "the city is flooding". No wall of water has engulfed New Orleans, not yet. There is a fight going on right now, between the water and the people who built the city, and while some parts of the city are getting wet, that fight is by no means decided yet.

[WestCoastGal]

Keep us posted on what you're hearing Karl. Thanks

[Howlin]

25 feet?

[carl in alaska]

Here's your reply to the lefties regarding the SPR: the Federal government doesn't pay cash for the oil that goes into the SPR. The oil is delivered to the SPR by Chevron Corp. as payment for some large oil leases. So when oil prices go up, there is no budgetary impact on the Feds because no cash is paid for the oil. This is one case where the Feds actually made a smart move that saves the taxpayers money.

[BurbankKarl]

Entergy was just on ABC2 saying 700k people without power and 1 month restoration date.

[cyborg]

OMG

[paulat]

Parish map at #2489

[bobdsmith]

Another reason to avoid contact with deep water

[spycatcher]

see post 2770