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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
Images:
New Orleans/Baton Rouge Experimental Radar Subject to delays and outages - and well worth the wait
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
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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 |
Wow...just showed houses with water up to their roofs!
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
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.
"If Buckner had'nt made that error at 1st, If Joel Finch wasn't put in during the 7th inning back in 1975."
I mean, I guess we'd expect it to be evacuated but wouldn't SOMEBODY with a cell phone have ridden it out?
You're making me hungry!
I dont know if its still there or not (N Hollywood)...used to go all the time..
It's a wonder that a house can remain standing with water that high.
I haven't heard anything from Picayune, MS yet either.
He means Sid Finch.
Well I guess that means Shep was a bit over-confident last night. There is some flooding after all.
Cell phones tend to be useless when the towers go down or the backup power systems finally run out of power.
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.
You would also have to expect that the cell phone towers survived.
There was a church left on Galveston, but not a lot else. So they were free to grade the island and build their seawall.
all the cell towers could be down....and those fancy public safety radio systems are notorious for failing...La. has a statewide system.
My experience is that cell phones are
the first thing to go in a hurricane
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.
The news crawl on ch6 says that 4 feet of water went over the levee in St Bernards parish
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