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

[owl37]

I am looking for any information on Slidell and the north shore. I think it probably got a direct hit from the wall of the storm. This area has gone entirely unmentioned by the media and it may well turn out to have suffered the worst damage. Many, many people there didn't think they needed to evacuate. Please post what you hear.

[RinaseaofDs]

A classmate of mine is one of the guys flying the C-130. He sent email saying that this is the first storm he's flown that nearly ejected him out of his seat.

He was glad to get the plane on the tarmac and it had definitely sustained damage that had rendered it unairworthy.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Reports from Gulfport seem to support that the storm surge there was at least 27', maybe 30'.

[Palladin]

Mary is all wet!

[monday]

"Hmmmmm... that jog looks like the hand of God pushing a hurricane...

But prayers for those in Gulfport and Mobile MS."

Hmmmm... God decided that people in Gulfport and Mobile deserved to be punished more than people in New Orleans? It couldn't have been that high pressure system over the center of the country that pushed it to the east?

[Pyro7480]

You did see what they were talking about, though?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

* BREAKING * - Bush may release strategic reserve oil

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050829/ap_on_go_pr_wh/katrina_bush

[FeliciaCat]

I'm sure he is fine at his job...but to put yourself (and support staff) in direct harm's way for no good reason ????I dont get it.

[carl in alaska]

Hey who is that guy in #3216? He looks familiar...a famous bear hunter? I know a guy who was stalked by a bear while snowmobiling. He fired a few shots at the bear but thinks he missed him. The bear ran off.

[jpsb]

Bump!

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: "Good point, but if NOLA has been sinking all that time then it was not too smart to continue building in a sinking city."

Correctomundo, Carl, but look at those folks in San Francisco and Los Angeles... They are truly building on shifting sands...

People are always going to build where they want...

[Cboldt]

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.

I pay passing/slight attention, but have been likewise impressed. Prayers for those in the face of this storm.

[dennis1x]

yes, the storm bobbled...but that caused no difference in the affects that nola encountered....they got the worse that could be expected accept for if the storm was 50 miles to the west......the "jog" did nothing.

[Abigail Adams]

Just heard that flooding in Sidell is "serious"...That's all. Local ABC affiliate.

[Abigail Adams]

State rep trapped at courthouse building in Bernard parish on second floor.

[STARWISE]

May our Dear Lord surround your wife and co-workers with protection and safety. Prayers continuing for all the suffering souls in this disaster.

[Dog Gone]

I don't know if prayers push hurricanes or not, but there was no shortage of prayers, and storm took an unexpected jog to miss the city.

New Orleans took a beating, no doubt about that. But it would have been far worse if Katrina had stayed on track.

[The Toll]

My sister did not make it out. She held up in her house 1 mile inland in Pascagoula, Ms. We grew up with these storms and my family understands them very well. We spent the night on the phone yelling at her. I am very familiar with what she is facing. I am very ill to my stomach right now and it could be sometime before I hear anything. I am at work so thank you to those posting. Any info on MS coast between Gulfport and Mobile will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[deport]

Katrina worst ever for Entergy

Entergy President Dan Packer said work crews would begin assessing damage to the power system Tuesday. But this much he already knows: Hurricane Katrina will go down as the worst the utility has ever experienced.

The situation Monday afternoon was "the worst we've had in our company's history,'' he said on WWL radio.

Packer said more than 700,000 customers - about 100 percent of the utility's customers in southeast Louisiana - were without power as of Monday afternooon.

He said the company's second-worst power outage was during Hurricane Georges, when some 265,000 customers had no electricty.

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[RobFromGa]

Cat 2 now