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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: spectre

"2 Miles in? NO way!"

That is what the reported said


3,221 posted on 08/29/2005 10:40:15 AM PDT by jimbergin
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To: r9etb

You having a bad Monday or what?

I didn't START the illegal discussion.
But! It was PART & PARCEL of the
presidents presser w/the hurricane.

Now, go pound sand.


3,222 posted on 08/29/2005 10:40:30 AM PDT by the Deejay ((THE LADY DEEJAY))
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To: green iguana

That's why the reporter was situated miles away.


3,223 posted on 08/29/2005 10:40:33 AM PDT by Smogger
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To: easonc52

I'm just south of Jackson and it is getting really bad now. We are going across the street to a safter structure. I'm signing off now and will post a message when I return.

Ciao,

Flying E


3,224 posted on 08/29/2005 10:40:33 AM PDT by flying Elvis
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To: BurbankKarl

Meredith from Hammond/WGNO:

Lots of houses damaged, oak trees through houses...


3,225 posted on 08/29/2005 10:40:41 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: NautiNurse; All

Got a live report from my wife. (She's stationed at Keessler AFB and sheltered in the hospital)

She said about an hour ago that the entire base was under water to one degree or the next, the basement of the hospital had flooded and part of the roof had been damaged, generators are gone and it's pretty fierce...they are all on the 2nd floor of 5 right now and safe.

Please pray for her and her co-workers


3,226 posted on 08/29/2005 10:40:47 AM PDT by Blue Scourge (Team Charleston...second to none...)
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To: Dog Gone
You can see the jog that saved the city of New Orleans from destruction.

Thanks for that! That is an amazing jog!

3,227 posted on 08/29/2005 10:40:57 AM PDT by easonc52
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To: deport
August 29. 2005 10:17AM

Most of Terrebonne Parish without power


Thirty-five thousand homes and businesses were without power this morning, authorities said. It's not clear when crews would be dispatched to restore electricity.

Three-thousand people remain sheltered at 10 parish shelters, including the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center, the East Park Recreation Center and several area schools. Those people won't be allowed to leave until authorities lift a curfew that went into effect at 8 p.m. Sunday.

3,228 posted on 08/29/2005 10:41:01 AM PDT by deport (If you want something bad enough, there's someone who will sell it to you. Even the truth your way.)
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To: Calpernia

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"


3,229 posted on 08/29/2005 10:41:02 AM PDT by aft_lizard (This space waiting for a post election epiphany it now is: Question Everything)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Proves no one really wants to go to NOLA these days.....:o)


3,230 posted on 08/29/2005 10:41:05 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: flying Elvis

Take care..


3,231 posted on 08/29/2005 10:41:22 AM PDT by Dog ( "Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.")
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To: Dog
How many people live in Sidell?

At least the 2 adults and four small children who slept on our sofabed and floor last night here in south Texas. They're OK for now. The parents are not as they know what to expect.

3,232 posted on 08/29/2005 10:41:50 AM PDT by Johnny Crab (Always thankful.)
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To: LibSnubber

As of the 2000 census, the city slidell had a population of 25695.


3,233 posted on 08/29/2005 10:41:55 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: RobFromGa; spectre

I would venture a guess that he meant that the water went inland two miles, which would be about right for a surge of that magnitude - although Hurricane Belauh cut channels through Padre Island.


3,234 posted on 08/29/2005 10:41:57 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: pgkdan

I can honestly say, in years and years of being a ham radio and weather geek, I have NEVER heard the NWS and the NHC saying some of the stuff they've said the past two days. That is absolutely chilling.

}:-)4


3,235 posted on 08/29/2005 10:42:02 AM PDT by Moose4 (Richmond, Virginia, where our motto is "Will Riot For Cheap Laptops")
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To: Blue Scourge

Glad that you heard from your wife! So, they have no electricity now? Is it still windy there?


3,236 posted on 08/29/2005 10:42:05 AM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: Smogger
MSNBC reporter reprorting from Biloxi that the coastline has moved about 2 miles in.

MSNBC can't be right. Biloxi's on a peninsula that's not even 2 miles wide in most places.
3,237 posted on 08/29/2005 10:42:15 AM PDT by conservative in nyc
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To: dennis1x

nola did not miss the eyewall...that it missed the center is inconsequential..all this "jog" talk is ridiculous....the western eyewall went directly over nola.

the reason things are worse in miss is that populated areas are actually on the coast and received actual ocean surge...unlike new orleans which is not a coastal city.


3,238 posted on 08/29/2005 10:42:16 AM PDT by dennis1x
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To: maggief

Pensacola is miles to the east, and they got THAT!? Just damn...


3,239 posted on 08/29/2005 10:42:23 AM PDT by Pyro7480 (Dies irae, dies illa....Rex tremendae majestatis, qui salvandos salvas gratis, salva me!)
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To: Blue Scourge

"Please pray for her and her co-workers"

You got it. Glad to hear they are safe.


3,240 posted on 08/29/2005 10:42:30 AM PDT by LibSnubber (Lafayette, LA........PRAYER AGAINST STORMS on my homepage)
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