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

[Diddle E. Squat]

MSNBC: Lester Holt moving from Baton Rouge to MS border(near Slidell) on 2 lane road, I-12 reported blocked by downed power lines, state police told them a bit ago that they just don't yet have an assessment of the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain.

[Trident/Delta]

Is that drama or drag???

Semper Giggle

[tnlibertarian]

Fox, as in Vincente?

No, Vicente edits Bush's speeches before W delivers them.

[Trust but Verify]

If you somehow forgot or lost your prescription meds, there are hospitals where these types of things are available. I'm sure that if you find looters in a pharmacy, they ain't walking off with a vial of insulin and a couple of needles.

[RushCrush]

Oh My Goodness, you are my idol. That is too funny!!!

[BurbankKarl]

a 76 year old male is possibly trapped at 2706 Jacob Dr.Please Help. Last time heard from him was about 9 am this morning. He said his son is at Chalmette High School.THANKS

from the net

[jpsb]

"New Orleans was wiped out by thge big one."

Wrong again, New Orleans got the "big One" and survived.

[maineman]

LOL

[hoosiermama]

Where do we get young men like these????

Each time we sing "God Bless America", He answers our prayers.

[cyborg]

CNN is better but now I have a Harrigan 'whoa' sound life for eternal posterity.

[Types_with_Fist]

FOX made it sound like NO would have to be rebuilt on another site, oh, and the dead would be floating all over.

They would have had it that bad with this storm if it had come ashore just a couple of dozen miles more to the west. This was not a "diminished storm." It was a Cat 4 and everything people have been fearing. New Orleans got hit hard but they DID NOT get the worst of it.

[Trust but Verify]

If I'm not mistaken, someone said Chalmette is the site of a big oil refinery.

[Quilla]

MOBILE, Ala. -- Rain and wind pounded the Gulf Coast today as Hurricane Katrina moved ashore, spawning tornadoes and flash flooding in Mississippi and Alabama.

In Mobile, what officials feared would happen, did happen: Part of the downtown area was under water. The Mobile Convention Center looked like it was sitting in the middle of a lake as winds pushed water from the bay into the streets.

About 10 a.m., operators of the Marriott Hotel near downtown rang up guests and invited them to a second-floor ballroom of the high-rise building, where they could watch a movie, "Robots," and eat sandwiches. About 200 people showed up, but many stayed in their rooms.

Hurricane-force winds pounded windows on the glass-front hotel, feeling at times like a minor earthquake, and two metal flagpoles nearby were thrashed about. At midday trees, were still swaying in the strong winds.

Hotel officials kept shooing the curious away from large glass windows. They also replaced plywood covers over the front door, placed there to keep the wind out.

Electricity went out at 11 a.m., shutting off lights and air conditioning. Hotel management brought in generator-driven industrial fans to provide some relief from 80-degree temperatures and 90-percent- plus humidity.

In downtown Mobile, near the bay, water depths reached 10 to 12 feet. Hospitals along the coast report flooding on their first floors.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-050829katrina-gulfcoast,1,4054384.story?coll=chi-news-hed

[CindyDawg]

We joke about "your turn" but is it right to pray for a storm to be sent elsewhere?

[Smogger]

St. Bernard Parish building is 15-20 ft under water according to WDSU reporter stranded on 2nd floor of government building

St. Bernard Parish is 15-20 ft under water according to WDSU reporter stranded on 2nd floor of government building

[rwfromkansas]

I would hardly call a cat 3 the big one.

[easonc52]

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!

As are we all!!!

[Spktyr]

Not much anyone can do right now.

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I think we're not going to get a true picture of deaths until they run a house to house search of attics.

[Types_with_Fist]

Wrong again, New Orleans got the "big One" and survived.

That wouldn't have been you with Shep at the French Quarter, would it?

[Diddle E. Squat]

Give it a rest, had the hurricane not weakened and the storm surge been just a few feet higher the bowl that NO sits in would have filled with Lake water to a 15-20' depth, instead of being mostly dry. If that had happened, their doomsday talk would have been very accurate. Normally I am also bothered by media hype, but in this case everything they reported that you are complaining about was echoed by the Nat'l Hurricane Center, based on years of studying what could happen with a Cat 5 storm. You don't know what you are talking about, so drop it.