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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: Doohickey
Charleston solved the looting problem by getting the word out that looters would be shot, not arrested.

Excellent. That's exactly what they should be doing during this, too.

2,961 posted on 08/29/2005 10:00:27 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod (Benedict XVI = Terminator IV)
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To: bwteim

Looters occupy that *special* place between pedophiles and those who prey on the elderly.

I like that can I quote you! Bottom of the "human" food chain indeed...


2,962 posted on 08/29/2005 10:00:29 AM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: BurbankKarl
of course it is overhyped...it is the MSM!

Check out post 2952 and think if that is overhyping.

People are in danger of dying. That is no hype.

2,963 posted on 08/29/2005 10:00:29 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: cajungirl

HC 9th Grade damage

Reports from Harrison Central 9th Grade School in North Gulfport are that three of four walls there have collapsed. Rescue efforts are in progress. There were about 100 people sheltered there.


2,964 posted on 08/29/2005 10:00:30 AM PDT by silentknight
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To: Abigail Adams

Over 100 calls from people in Orleans parish stuck on their rooftops. Yikes!


2,965 posted on 08/29/2005 10:00:41 AM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: abb

Is the Amite River coming up? Or is that a silly question?


2,966 posted on 08/29/2005 10:00:48 AM PDT by daybreakcoming (May God bless those who enter the valley of the shadow of death so that we may see the light of day.)
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To: Dog

I never am...


2,967 posted on 08/29/2005 10:00:48 AM PDT by green iguana
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To: Cedar

They seem to be okay, albeit packed:

Natchez shelters almost full; volunteers needed; convention center open to locals for shelter only
http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/articles/2005/08/29/news/news14.txt


2,968 posted on 08/29/2005 10:00:58 AM PDT by cgk (We'll have to deal w/ the networks. One way to do that is to drain the swamp they live in - Rumsfeld)
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To: BurbankKarl

A convoy of Alabama State Trooper cruisers are going through downtown Foley, AL, per WKRG. Extensive damage from tropical storm-force winds, according to report.


2,969 posted on 08/29/2005 10:00:59 AM PDT by Pyro7480 (Dies irae, dies illa....Rex tremendae majestatis, qui salvandos salvas gratis, salva me!)
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To: Steve_Seattle
I don't like the hype either. I think much of the media coverage is dictated by memeories of storm disasters before the 1970s.

What is different today? 1) Better communication and media coverage; 2) lessons learned; 3) improved building construction; 4) better envronment controls (levees, coastal improvements etc)

The likelihood of the doomsday scenarios is frankly very remote as long as residents continue to respect these storms and take reasonable precautions.

Now if NO had no levees or flood gates and people were continuing to congregate up and down Bourbon Street during the event; well then, who knows? But in the past people just didn't get adequate warning and that's why hundreds of people died.

2,970 posted on 08/29/2005 10:01:06 AM PDT by IFly4Him
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To: mhking

No man...the ONLY way to have fun with fire ants is to POKE at them with a stick...that is just the most fun you can have here in Texas...kick a fire ant hill and run like the dickens....


2,971 posted on 08/29/2005 10:01:14 AM PDT by antivenom (If your not living on the edge, you're taking up too much damn space!!!)
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To: carl in alaska

I hear ya! I live in the desert,
where nothing happens weatherwise....
not even rain.


2,972 posted on 08/29/2005 10:01:21 AM PDT by the Deejay (THE LADY DEEJAY)
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To: txdoda

Be nice if **AP Photo/Dave Martin** would help shelter these people, rather than just photo them "struggling to get to the Dome".



How? Offer them a lens cap to keep their bald spots dry?


2,973 posted on 08/29/2005 10:01:21 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
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To: deport

2,974 posted on 08/29/2005 10:01:43 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: Diddle E. Squat

Yep, that's a hurricane for you. When you've been through a few, all you can do when you hear these reports is GASP...feeling soooo sorry for those caught up in it. Praying for all those folks.


2,975 posted on 08/29/2005 10:01:43 AM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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To: filbert

Well that is good! Thanks.


2,976 posted on 08/29/2005 10:01:56 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Diddle E. Squat; All
But National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield warned that New Orleans would be pounded throughout the day and that Katrina's potential 15-foot storm surge, down from a feared 28 feet, was still substantial enough to cause extensive flooding.

"I'm not doing too good right now," Chris Robinson said via cellphone from his home east of the city's downtown. "The water's rising pretty fast. I got a hammer and an ax and a crowbar, but I'm holding off on breaking through the roof until the last minute. Tell someone to come get me please. I want to live."

Source

2,977 posted on 08/29/2005 10:02:03 AM PDT by Smogger
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To: bwteim

They should all be shot, quickly and without mercy, before the cops come and let them go free after a day or two.


2,978 posted on 08/29/2005 10:02:10 AM PDT by Marysecretary (Thank you, Lord, for FOUR MORE YEARS!!!)
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To: carl in alaska
You can dress for the cold but I don't have a gator suit.

Do you have a polar bear suit? :-)

2,979 posted on 08/29/2005 10:02:13 AM PDT by dinasour (Pajamahadeen)
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To: cyborg

Smart little boogers....and MEAN!


2,980 posted on 08/29/2005 10:02:16 AM PDT by antivenom (If your not living on the edge, you're taking up too much damn space!!!)
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