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

[SunnySide]

LA prospecting. Gawd......

[txdoda]

link to local news forum......

http://www.wwltv.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2229

poster 'cajungal' says she's between Houma & Thibodeaux, maybe she can give you some info

[oceanview]

Bastardi was saying that even a strike 30 miles east of NO, would push the lake over the levee. of course, in retrospect, now that we know which facts occurred - we can make excuses for these models and forecasts. hey, don't get me wrong, I am glad it went down this way. but it doesn't mean there should be no review of the pre-hurricane events.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Harvey/Gretna areas (I believe directly Southeast of the Superdome and Canal St.) are flooding due to pump failure(~5 feet).

Harvey and Gretna are on the south side of the River from New Orleans.

[NittanyLion]

Un-frickin-believable.

[Howlin]

Straight line winds are the absolute WORST, IMO.

We had them one time at 80 MPH; it was horrific!

[NautiNurse]

TWC reporting from Covington now. Some mild - moderate structural damage. Moderate flooding along the shoreline.

[CobraJet]

I have reservations in Gulf Shores for Thursday the 1st. Any word on conditions there?

[fooman]

good pt. It would be nice if the pumps were started too.

[Dog Gone]

Mike Keller, a resident of Biloxi, Mississippi, stands in the rain while mooning Hurricane Katrina just after dawn

Something tells me Mike Keller spent the night at a hurricane party.

[the Deejay]

Well stated, Howlin. ;)

[Howlin]

That is why everybody needs to be evacuated.

[monday]

"Maybe you would let someone die rather than "steal" medicine for them during an emergency, but I would not. "

Especially since it isn't necessary to "steal" the medicine at all. Leave an IOU. Pay for the stupid medicine later when the pharmacist has his business up and running again.

[rolling_stone]

I am frustrated too..the news needs to be more mobile..and use more resources...surely they have affiliates in these other areas..I guess all communications are down..only thing I can think of is Ham radio operators who can use battery power and get the word out..something to learn for the media for next time..

[Iowa Granny]

Onyx just called me and wanted me to tell you all that she's ok, but she's NEVER in her life seen anything like this storm.

My goodness. I wondered, when she checked in on the "Check-in" thread if maybe she wasn't posting prematurely, as I didn't think there'd been time for the storm to move that far North.

Thank you Hildy. I have a dinner meeting this evening and must hit the road about 5:00 in order to be there on time. I'll check in when I get home around 9:00. Thanks again.

[Howlin]

It's not looking good for your trip.

[cll]

Thanks again, NN. FYI TD 13 dissipated northeast of the islands.

[bkepley]

Insurance companies don't cover flood. That's FEMA (or whatever).

[r9etb]

Something tells me Mike Keller spent the night at a hurricane party.

Something tells me Mike Keller is currently in the emergency room and even the gay guys are wincing in sympathetic pain...