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

[eastforker]

Go get some sleep, we have two more headed this way, thank you for everything you have done, above and beyond the call of duty and you still dealt with the kooks and the attention deprived.

[fooman]

goood pts.

[bwteim]

Delayed my response - had to wipe tears from my eyes.

[Reborn]

I agree. It would be nice to see at least "one more" hurricane thread. FR is about the only place to get good news on what is going on once one weeds through the regular gab.

[BenLurkin]

Any video or stills of looting?

[LibSnubber]

"Take it easy, will you."

I will after I find out if all of my family is alive.

[Robert A Cook PE]

???

NONE of these looters is "stealing" to save their own life, somebody's else's life, or their children's lives.

NONE have been "threatened" with anything but discomfort, pain from wind and exposure, and wind-blown debris.

What? Are we supposed to believe they are "starving" or dying of thirst after 6 hours of the hurricane? With shelters and fire stations and police stations and other official shelters and churches ...... all available in walking dist of every house in the city.

[Cedar]

"Wonder if Corky's BBQ made it..."

The Memphis Headquarters is fine so far.

[NautiNurse]

Will do...

[conservative in nyc]

The media can only report from where they are. Most bunkered down in New Orleans because that's where they thought the storm was going to wreak its worst havoc. They stayed in the French Quarter because that's where the hotels are and it's one of the higher (i.e. safer) points in the city.

As the weather gets better and they get out and about the New Orleans metropolitan area and beyond, they will report from there.

My guess is Slidell was hit pretty hard, but isn't completely submerged. The land there slopes up from the lake, not down, according to Google Earth.

[MarMema]

Thanks for posting that. I will pray for the man with all the animals.

[jveritas]

God protect your family. Where do they live?

[Diddle E. Squat]

I agree with you, all these models we saw about how NO can be flooded (the Atlantis type flooding we were hearing about in the runup to this) - they need reworking, because I think they make some assumptions which are very unlikely. it seems like to take out NO, the hurricane would have to be moving northwest, riding right up the mouth of the river into Ponchitrain.

You are wrong. The hurricane lost just enough strength (down to a low Cat 3 by the time it was even with NO) and wnet just enough east, that the storm surge south off of Lake Pontchartrain was only about 15' instead of the predicted 20', which would have overtopped most of those levees. Instead only one area (so far) was reported to have an overtop from the lake, apparently in the northeast bowl. (There are actually 3 levee created bowls north of the river, not one.) The levee bowl that is most of the city wasn't overtopped but it was close. The reports of deaths and 40,000+ flooded homes are in the southeast(Ariabi) bowl where the Miss. River overtopped a levee, flooding that bowl to 8-12'. So that worst case scenario did take place to an extent in some of the city, just not in the one with the Superdome, French Quarter, and all the TV cameras.

[EBH]

Thank you for stating what needed to be said. It is getting tedious.

[El Laton Caliente]

The first thing they did was build a sea wall... ;^)

Most of the work was done during the 1930s.

[rolling_stone]

Who else did it? Who can lessen the fury of a storm and greatly weaken it before it hits land and spare the lives of so many people? Only the Good Lord can do it. Keep your faith my fellow freeper.

Oh for crying out loud, if God can lessen the storm and spare lives, he could have prevented it from being created and any lives being lost. And no I will not debate his wisdom.

[NCC-1701]

this question needs to be asked: will countries from around the world come HERE and help US rebuild what was destroyed? Answer: NO! We'll do it ourselves, just like we ALWAYS do.

[bwteim]

For off-thread and non news contributors, this post got off to a quick start.... then has been sitting there.

Get there fast !!!!!!!!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472845/posts
New Orleans pounded by hurricane


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Izzy Dunne
txflake ;)

[Calpernia]

>>>Ivan is not a woman...

Metro?

:))