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

[Dog Gone]

that loop shows the eyewall directly hitting new orleans...there was no divine jog that saved nola.

You're just wrong about that. The hurricane passed east of New Orleans and no portion of the eyewall went over the city at all.

[plain talk]

Worse? A strong cat 4, directly hitting New Orleans from the worst possible direction? What could be worse?

Cat 5 about 20-30 miles east of where it tracked. It can always be worse.

[WoodstockCat]

wjtv out of Jackson, MS reporting 75% damage to buildings in Biloxi/Gulfport, many buildings completely without roofs.

[Hatteras]

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

Not to the people of Biloxi.

[Blue Scourge]

Keessler Air Force Base...she says she is safe, so I can only hope she is right.

[cgk]

J = Jose... tropical depression

[STARWISE]

How that reminds of the the sweet lady interviewed by FNC at the Dome last night, Jackie. She was full of the Lord's message .. repent and acceptance of God's will. I pray she's OK and not enveloped in fearsome thoughts or risk.

[silentknight]

Damage much worse than earlier reported in N.O. Sounds bad now - reports from EOC - MAYOR - CHIEF POLICE

[GummyIII]

Damn, my son, who is home on leave from Iraq, just called and checked in early from leave and volunteered to go to NO for relief duty. The USMC Duty officer said that he had a LOOOOOONG roster of Marines gearing up to go and help. Where do we get young men like these???? Semper Proud!

Canteen FYI!!!

[Smogger]

Winds from Hurricane Katrina damage a building in Gulfport, Miss.

[cyborg]

Anyone still in a trailer park, better LEAVE. I know it's hard to leave one's home but better to be alive and homeless than dead.

[MozartLover]

Thank you for the prayers.:)

[Liberty Valance]

bttt.
Thank you, your son and all who serve.

[Smogger]

Waves crash against a boat washed onto Highway 90 in Gulfport, Miss.

[dawn53]

So there is major flooding in parts of NO, according to Shep, but the bit about the roof being off the pumping station I didn't understand.

Why wouldn't a pump be able to operate, even with the roof off the building.

[RDTF]

I'm trying to catch up - what did they do about the leaking Superdome? When I heard that earlier I wanted to cry.

[cksharks]

Funny, my Brother lives 1/2 mi from blam.

[Trident/Delta]

Yeah, but it is going to get interesting as the storm moves north. the silt will be washed into the river and run downstream to the delta. It will be quite a while until they can undertake the dredging and channel building. Debris and silt will be running for weeks. The rains upstream will DEFINITELY affect the delta. This IS NOT over for the delta region.

Semper FI

[toldyou]

God bless them! You must be proud to have raised a son so loving and brave!

Congratulations to you for a job well done!

[txhurl]

:(