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

[silentknight]

Interstate 10 impassable

The Biloxi River is flowing over the bridge on Interstate 10

[Diddle E. Squat]

WWL: Water 8-10' deep near Jackson Barracks, which appears to be at about 0' elevation. That's the area called Arabi, which is just SE of the industrial canal. In its own levee system, surrounded by the Miss. River to the south, Industrial Canal to the west, and Intercoastal Waterway to the north. Flooding here will NOT affect downtown New Orleans, which is in a separate levee bowl.

[TomB]

Cantore is reporting on TWC. The water is going down. He sounds pretty mellow (tired?).

[Teri0811]

"One of the Mississippi River levees was breached, haven't heard that any Lake P levees were breached (yet). Did I miss something."

I believe I read on one of the 123456234523 graphics on FOX that the Mississippi levee was breached and not too long after that, another alert that the Lake Pontsomethingorotherwithatrain (too tired to spell) levee was breached but after the intial alerts, I haven't seen anything else said about the Mississippi levee.

[strongbow]

"Man, I'll take the cold in Alaska any day over gators and snakes in my house. You can dress for the cold but I don't have a gator suit."

I grew up in Baton Rouge and New Orleans and went through Betsy and Camille and others. Besides the ubiquitous heat and humidity you just mentioned the some of the other reasons I agree with you and now live in Wasilla. BTW just talked to my folks in BR and they have some wind but not much rain. They are without power as predicted. Sounds like the French Quarter might get a much needed street cleaning but not the predicted apocalypse. Never liked the smell there, stale beer and vomit.

[DCPatriot]

Some of the cars coming back into the city aren't necessarily looters, IMO.

If you saw the freeway a parking lot would you want to be trapped in your car or taking your chances in a tall building back in the city?

[Calpernia]

MSM doesn't mention A LOT of pertinent info!

[bwteim]

"I like that can I quote you!"

Be my guest, I am sure that others have said it much more eloquently, however. And I wouldn't even rank them - they all deserve a life sentence without parole or the chair.

[Pyro7480]

[Trident/Delta]

I was watching as it was "trying" to go back to Katrina coveage. I think that someone didn't know that the tuner was sending channel 6 via internet stream and changed it to channel 8 to watch "All my children" soap. There was a sense of panic on the part of the person that was trying to shange the streaming codec back to channel 6. It was really kina funny....

Semper Easily Amused

[Moose4]

Yikes. But as far as we know right now, there have been no widespread topping or failures on the levees holding Lake Ponchartrain back from New Orleans and Jefferson Parish?

}:-)4

[LibSnubber]

I fear there will be many of us here who are going to have many, many relatives and friends left homeless - or at least displaced for a long while. I'm trying to stay thankful that they got out with their lives, but for them and us, this is far from over.

[r9etb]

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

Yeah, I was thinking "shoot on sight" might not be a bad policy, at least for the obvious cases.

[mvpel]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/11/20011113.html

The SPR will be filled in a deliberate and cost-effective manner. This will be done principally through royalty-in-kind transfers to be implemented by the Department of Energy and the Department of the Interior.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Petroleum_Reserve

On August 17, 2005, the SPR reached its goal of 700 million barrels (111,000,000 m³), or about 96% of its now-increased 727 million barrel capacity. Approximately 60% of the crude oil in the reserve is the less desirable sour (high sulfur content) variety. The oil delivered to the reserve is "royalty-in-kind" oil—royalties owed to the U.S. government by operators who acquire leases on the federally-owned Outer Continental Shelf in the Gulf of Mexico. These royalties were previously collected as cash, but in 1998 the government began testing the effectiveness of collecting royalties "in kind" - or in other words, acquiring the crude oil itself. This mechanism was adopted when refilling the SPR began, and once refilling is completed, future royalties will be paid into the Federal treasury.
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We should all thank our lucky stars that Bush was elected instead of Kerry, who would undoubtedly have bowed to political pressure to drain the SPR in an effort to keep gasoline prices below $2.00 per gallon, which would have left us shockingly vulnerable to this hurricaine's disruption of oil supplies.

[monday]

"In the time we've been talking, the water has risen, I'd say, another 3 inches. It's up to the top of my boots. The water keeps rising."

Those guys are in trouble.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Cantore was just on the phone on TWC. Says they are now ok on the 2nd-5th floors.

[pgkdan]

Weather Channel Now Reporting Extensive flooding BEGINNING in New Orleans

I just heard about the report from Jim Cantore's producer...it seems that those saying NO dodged a bullet and that the storm was over hyped may have spoken too soon. I'm praying for everyone in this storm's path. I think we're going to see some real ugly pictures tomorrow. I think people are going to be stunned.

[Dog]

Fox reporting it is crossing the wires that Biloxi and Mobile have been hit very hard.....very hard.

[the Deejay]

Gee, I didn't even think about the
manhole covers! Snakes are what I
think of.

Yet, I see people all the time...
wading through HIGH water!

[BurbankKarl]

I thought they put the soap on to soothe people!