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

[Abigail Adams]

Almost every home and buisiness in Slitell(??) has been touched by the wind and/or water.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"He means Sid Finch."

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But, but . . . Sid Finch was a pre-teen back in 1975. : )

[MaryFromMichigan]

conservative in nyc gave me this link for WKRG: mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95518
Works great.

[Diddle E. Squat]

MSNBC: Unconfirmed reports from Slidell are not good, that most buildings have been impacted by either wind or water. But no reporters on site yet to confirm, reporter was in Covington.

[sassbox]

I've wondered that a lot myself in the past two days. Seems like New Orleans' current location is the worst place for a metropolitan area. However I mentioned this to my dad last night on the phone and he said that the city has sunk quite a bit over the years and also in the 18th century it's very likely that the settlers of N.O. simply did not know they were below sea level. Thank God the city dodged the bullet this time, though it sounds like things will still be quite a mess down there. I hope that this storm leads to better evacuation procedures, shelters, and levee/pumping systems.

[Not A Snowbird]

I'm having trouble with those links, but I did get MSNBC to work.

I'm good now.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Poor Slidell. Nice bedroom community - my brother used to live there before he moved to Houston.

[BurbankKarl]

Slidell....

where did you hear that...I have a bunch of Freepmails from people worried about that area

[1Old Pro]

Snakes, I hate snakes. Found one yesterday.

[Spktyr]

If the wind doesn't take them out, a lightning strike doesn't fry them, or a wall of water doesn't inundate them, they die when the power goes out and the backup power supply finally runs out - assuming that the terrestrial telecom network they're connected to isn't dead.

[cgk]

placemark.

[Dog Gone]

What about Shell-MARS?? That seemed like it was going to take a direct hit...

That's another one to be concerned about.

We're not going to have a real grasp of the damage to the oil facilities or to the coastal communities until tomorrow, I suspect.

I still can't understand the morons who decided to stay on Grand Isle as a Cat 5 storm was bearing down on them. They're lucky it weakened to Cat 4 overnight, but they're lucky if they're alive.

[deport]

How do you raise an island? Does the former first floor of a house that survived the hurricane become it's basement?

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Little if anything remained after the hurricane.... they started from scratch and over the years raise the island...

Dredge material is pumped into the island during the grade raising
after the 1900 hurricane. Residents endured years of pumps, sludge,
canals, stench and miles of catwalks during the project.
Photo courtesy of Rosenberg Library.

[tiredoflaundry]

Shep is back on Fox.

[Abigail Adams]

On MSNBC live video online.

[tiredoflaundry]

Shep is back on Fox.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Fireants floating in the water...and not knowing where the blown off manhole covers are....rats, sludge, and who knows what else in that water.

[cwiz24]

A view of Galveston after the 1900 storm.

[Marysecretary]

OK, I won't if you won't.