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

[Abigail Adams]

Storm surge was over 20 feet in MS.

[cgk]

The Mound Underpass on Interstate-10 is flooded near downtown New Orleans on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina dumped torrential rain and battered the city when it made landfall near Grand Isle. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)

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Heavy floodwaters block many of the roadways in and around New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina pounds the area on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

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Cars sit idle on flooded streets in downtown New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina came ashore on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

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Blair Quintana, right, and Patrick Lampano seek shelter in a doorway in the French Quarter of New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina pounds the Crescent City on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

[EBH]

The EMERGENCY CENTER collapsed?! DMOG.

[dfwgator]

Ole Haley has got a serious Mississippi accent, don't he. We're talking Jerry Clower here.

[r9etb]

Could you take that particular discussion to another thread? thanks.

[AnAmericanMother]

Man, after the discussion about dealing with looters, I read that there were people "hanging" i.e. "hanged" on poles near French Quarter per Fox.

[deport]

Metairie on west side of New Orleans center.

[GOP_Proud]

It's already been raining here in southern WV for 3 days. We expect our own problems by mid week.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Yes. I flipped back to see who it was.

Did you hear the answer: That there are a lot of dead people down there. What question was he answering?

[kenth]

whoaaaa

[Chasaway]

Sorry. Was away from the desk for a while.


The feed I was getting quit after about 7 or 8 minutes and I couldn't get it to come back. Media Player kept telling it wasn't available anymore.

Curiouser and curiouser.

[Smogger]

BTW: If anyone has any news from Canton, or Madison County in general please pass it on. My father is there.

[WestCoastGal]

""oh great, people hanging on to poles near French Quarter per Fox" Geez, all three stations have such Drama Queens! "

So if he sees that are you suggesting he just turn away and not report it?

[Pyro7480]

Oh my!!

[AnAmericanMother]

"No quarter"? Holy cats! I guess as a military guy he knows what that means . . .

[WoodstockCat]

"Governor..what is your worst fear?"

[cyborg]

OMG!!!! thank you! LOL

[Abigail Adams]

Gov of MS getting choked up saying he's afraid there might be "a lot of dead people down there."

[flying Elvis]

I'm about 15 miles south of Jackson near hwy 49. The weather is deteriorating quickly. The trees are bending like grass in a windy field. Our power is intermittant and will likely go out for good soon.

[Mo1]

This Gov from Mississippi is very honest and straight forward .. telling it like it is