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

[spectre]

And the reality is, if a reporter gets impaled, they will censor it!

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[WestCoastGal]

Do you all remember Harrigan's reports from Afghanistan with the Northern Alliance at the start of the Iraq war?

He apparently has no fear.

[miele man]

http://www.freerepublic.com/%5Ehttp://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050611/note15.asp

This article, posted by Blam on June 11th, 2005, was about a 27.7 (90.9 feet) meter high wave that was measured in the Gulf during Hurricane Ivan. It is the LARGEST wave ever recorded. The article mentioned that computer modeling suggested there may have been 40 meter (131 feet) high waves as well.

[mhking]

All day yesterday, all I heard here was people whining about how NO Mayor Nagin was a moron for not evacuating sooner. Now I'm seeing folks whining about how this was crying wolf and that evacuation was unnecessary?

Which way do you want it?

[justa-hairyape]

No lightning though....

The caller stated that you can have two systems develop at opposites sides of the stadium. When they meet a lighting bolt can occur if charge is opposite. He swore he saw one. I don't have cable and from midnight to 3 am there was not much else to listen too or view besides this thread. Usually too busy.

[scott0347]

Amazing link

[LadyBuzz]

Steve is a fine reporter - too good to be hurricane stories

[benjaminjjones]

Did anyone hear someone in the studio even ask Steve Harrigan if he was OK?

I didn't.

[mhking]

Did anyone hear someone in the studio even ask Steve Harrigan if he was OK?

Yes. They did.

[DB]

Only an idiot would have stayed.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: "I once lived in a storage space in New York City that had a high skylight, just off the Hudson River. One cold Winter, I had placed a pot of water on the heater just to bring up the humidity in my "apartment", so I had warm moist air going up into a skylight that was being chilled by the extremely cold wind blowing off the river. The result: a small snowstorm in my kitchen.

"I moved out before the summer thunderstorms started up."

Ain't life wonderful?

[beyond the sea]

Not so sure about that, beyond. If I lived there, or anywhere near the hurricane coasts, I would have a lil spot somewhere on high ground, and would be leaving as soon as it vaguely looked like it was coming my way. --- I can understand those who have no place to go being reluctant to leave, however.

yes, I guess you are right.

[EBH]

http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?ID=LIX&region=d4&lat=29.95751953&lon=-90.07685852&label=New%20Orleans%2c%20LA

Looks like it to me too.

[NittanyLion]

Is that Helen Thomas?

[SlowBoat407]

I wonder if the space enclosed in the stadium is large enough for coriolis forces to have an effect on the air inside. If they gather everyone in the center and their body heat rises fast enough, they could actually get a little hurricane going inside.

[dawn53]

I'll say this....... if this turns out to be a story of "not so much damage" to New Orleans, New Orleans citizens will NEVER be convinced to evacuate EVER AGAIN. And I could understand their feelings.

Well, I wouldn't.

I live in Tampa Bay, and if there is potential for the kind of hurricane that was headed toward NO, I'd hope that people would evacuate every time.

If it doesn't hit head on, praise the Lord.

If it does, I've at least followed the guidance of those in charge, and believe they were looking out for my safety.

That being said, evacuations for minimal storms is another thing. Sometimes I believe they overreact to smaller storms and force evacuations when evacuations aren't necessary, on the other hand, look at Miami, they had a pretty tough go with just a Cat 1, so it's a hard call.

[beyond the sea]

No whining here.

[MEG33]

Perhaps..but I think they should have evacuated..there were no guarantees this storm was going to shift east..The way NO is situated makes it too dangerous to ignore a storm of this magnitude.
This is indeed a fortunate shift for them but one could not count on it.

Roof just flew off in the French Quarter they reported..

Praying the storm surge is less than feared also.

[LadyPilgrim]

"too good to be hurricane stories"

That's what I was thinking...and remembering!

[mhking]

Only an idiot would have stayed.

Not to hear some of the whiners here tell it -- who most likely would have been part of the whiners yesterday berating the mayor for not ordering the evacuation sooner.