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

[Steve_Seattle]

"All morning I've been hearing about breached levees and that P lake spilling over. And yet I keep reading that NO dodged the bullet."

It depends on what you mean by "dodged the bullet." Even though there is some major flooding, some collapsed buildings, etc, the damage seems to be falling short of the doomsday predictions - 50,000 dead, city swamped with toxic wastes - that the city would be virtually destroyed. But it remains to be seen what the extent of the damage is; the reports so far are fragmentary and laced with rumor. Chances are that the emphasis on NO has distracted attention from worse damage elsewhere.

[mhking]

JELLYFISH!!??!!??

[filbert]

Thanks for the roof info. Did the 10ft pillar that fell support anything? I mean main support. Don't think so. Wasn't that an external clock pylon--wouldn't think that would be load-bearing.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: "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."

Never heard this before... Mind if I ask for a source?

I just hope it is true...

[jeffers]

sissyjane posted:

">>Reporter in NO on the rooftops reports white caps in the flood zone<<

I'll ask again...How big is the flooded zone/ anyone??Anyone??"

It's changing by the minute. all you can do is try to keep track of individual reports as they stream in and try to build the big picture on your own.

How big?

Downtown New Orleans east to past Mobile Bay.

[bwteim]

John Z of CNN reporting some looters, now.

[rolling_stone]

They didn't evacuate?

no...boarded up and riding it out...they said the would call when possible, no news yet..

[WestCoastGal]

"what I'm trying to find out is how much of the city."

I think they still don't know. The radio reporter said they were unable to travel the streets. Information will be slow coming I'm afraid.

[CobaltBlue]

I thought they deliberately dynamited the levee south of New Orleans during Betsy to save Uptown. That's what I heard, at least. Was that just a rumor?

[Riley]

Best thread tip ever,,I never knew that about the soap.

It's also useful in a spray bottle with a little water to thin it against airborne nasties that get into the house. Whenever a Hornet or a Yellowjacket gets in, I hit them with the dishsoap spray. They instantly fall out of the air and can be stomped with impunity. Soap on the wings prevents them from flying, and soap on the body interferes with their breathing.

[ken5050]

As we do the post-mortem on the media coverage, I think it's fair to say now that the 3 24/7 cable news nets contributed more to the confusion than they helped.

[Not A Snowbird]

I dont know what I would be packing up first, my shoes, my cat...

Forget the shoes. Save the cat...

[monday]

"No alligators threatening us yet. Hubby is cooking mustard greens and corn bread.

Sorry is that offends anyone."

Well, ordinarily I find mustard greens offensive, but as long as I don't have to eat them, I suppose thats all right?;o)

[NCC-1701]

I was there five years ago. A lot of those aricraft are in an enclosed hagar-like building. great looking aircraft. The Drum has been move ashore since then. It's near that building. I hope everything made it through the storm.

[Spktyr]

The armor and hull is made of some of the thickest, most homogenous steel ever produced by man. A hurricane isn't going to do anything to it if the hatches are closed. In fact, even a tsunami probably wouldn't do much to the hull.

On top of that and unlike a building, it *floats*. "What storm surge?"

[TomB]

Simply amazing.

What is amazing are the people on this thread saying this thing was "over hyped"! I wonder what they are thinking.

[green iguana]

Hubby is cooking mustard greens and corn bread.

I find that combination offensive.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I forget what storm they were talking about on a news show yesterday, but they said that during a flood people had to grab onto trees for their lives. They had to quickly let go and jump back into the water due to these balls of fire ants who already found a temporary dry home in the trees. After hearing that, from now on I'll enjoy poisoning them.

[r9etb]

John Z of CNN reporting some looters, now.

Grrrrr..... damned vermin.

[retrokitten]

Wow! That is fantastic advice.