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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: BurbankKarl

Wow...just showed houses with water up to their roofs!


3,661 posted on 08/29/2005 12:16:51 PM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: Abigail Adams

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
215 PM CDT MON AUG 29 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
ATTALA COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
HOLMES COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
YAZOO COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
NOXUBEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
WINSTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT


3,662 posted on 08/29/2005 12:17:07 PM PDT by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: Trust but Verify
If I'm not mistaken, someone said Chalmette is the site of a big oil refinery.

And a great civil war area too. It would be..strange..if the floods uprooted some era skeletons (with grey unis) and floated them downstream.

3,664 posted on 08/29/2005 12:17:46 PM PDT by Windsong (FighterPilot)
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To: maineman

"If Buckner had'nt made that error at 1st, If Joel Finch wasn't put in during the 7th inning back in 1975."



Who's Joel Finch? Don't you mean Roger Moret?


3,665 posted on 08/29/2005 12:17:47 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (http://auh2orepublican.blogspot.com/)
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To: BurbankKarl

I mean, I guess we'd expect it to be evacuated but wouldn't SOMEBODY with a cell phone have ridden it out?


3,666 posted on 08/29/2005 12:18:20 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: mariabush

You're making me hungry!

I dont know if its still there or not (N Hollywood)...used to go all the time..


3,667 posted on 08/29/2005 12:18:33 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: Abigail Adams
Wow...just showed houses with water up to their roofs!

It's a wonder that a house can remain standing with water that high.

3,668 posted on 08/29/2005 12:18:50 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: txflake

I haven't heard anything from Picayune, MS yet either.


3,669 posted on 08/29/2005 12:18:56 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: AuH2ORepublican

He means Sid Finch.


3,670 posted on 08/29/2005 12:19:07 PM PDT by LikeLight ("You will regret any attempts to turn these posts into a comic book.")
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To: Quilla

Well I guess that means Shep was a bit over-confident last night. There is some flooding after all.


3,671 posted on 08/29/2005 12:19:26 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Cindy Sheehan: "All You Are Saying Is Give APPEASEMENT A Chance!")
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To: txflake

Cell phones tend to be useless when the towers go down or the backup power systems finally run out of power.


3,672 posted on 08/29/2005 12:19:47 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: MamaB

Well, I don't want to minimize things, but I've been through 90mph hurricane winds, and we didn't lose any windows(just protected with tape), so odds are that they'll probably be ok. Watch out for falling trees, pines are especially bad about easily snapping mid trunk.

Wow, 101 years old! I've bet she's blessed you with tellings of many great stories.


3,673 posted on 08/29/2005 12:19:50 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: txflake

You would also have to expect that the cell phone towers survived.


3,674 posted on 08/29/2005 12:19:52 PM PDT by Quick1
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To: green iguana

There was a church left on Galveston, but not a lot else. So they were free to grade the island and build their seawall.


3,675 posted on 08/29/2005 12:19:57 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: txflake

all the cell towers could be down....and those fancy public safety radio systems are notorious for failing...La. has a statewide system.


3,676 posted on 08/29/2005 12:20:32 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: txflake

My experience is that cell phones are
the first thing to go in a hurricane


3,677 posted on 08/29/2005 12:20:32 PM PDT by Tobor
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To: 1Old Pro

Can you imagine the clean up.

The thing that grosses me out about hurricanes is the poisonous snakes that go to dry land.

My grandparents had a little beach house on an island off of Galveston. There was a hurricane that hit there. Before the hurricane, the island didn't have snakes. After the hurricane, the island had lots of snakes.


3,678 posted on 08/29/2005 12:20:48 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: Windsong

http://www.exxonmobilchemical.com/public_pa/WorldwideEnglish/WhoWeAre/WhereWeOperate/Americas/OC_who_operate_USCAN_Chalmette.asp


3,679 posted on 08/29/2005 12:21:01 PM PDT by Johnny Crab (Always thankful.)
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To: luckystarmom

The news crawl on ch6 says that 4 feet of water went over the levee in St Bernards parish


3,680 posted on 08/29/2005 12:21:23 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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