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

[Crawdad]

Group of photographers? Where are the pics?

[Gondring]

You don't think Satan is capable of powerful things? How are we to know it wasn't him?

[Howlin]

but it doesn't mean there should be no review of the pre-hurricane events.

What you said.

[SE Mom]

Well of course! They didn't sleep at a Holiday Inn last night;)

[CobraJet]

Yep, I was afraid of that.

[bwteim]

"One of my favorite exchanges....
In times like these, you need to be able to laugh..."


"And you want to be my latex sales man?"

[oceanview]

that's not the extent of the overflow he was predicting. perhaps you didn't hear the guy last night, he and this other Louisiana emergency mgmt guy on TWC were apocalyptic about this thing.

[jveritas]

I pray God that they will be safe. I think that many phone lines and cell phones towers may be down for the moment but some shall be in service in the next 24 hours. I hope you will be able to contact your family very soon. It may be a good idea to call the police and emergency workers in these towns where your relatives are and check if your relatives have left their homes in particular your two elderly uncles. God be with you.

[Truth29]

Is it legal to shoot looters in Louisiana?

[SunnySide]

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


I'm sure some one(many) will figure out a way to sue insurance agancies for something indirectly related. It's become the American way. .... oh yippee(sarc)

[BurbankKarl]

Gov. Blanco is on again!

She is in charge!

[NittanyLion]

That is why everybody needs to be evacuated.

Yep. And, sadly, I suspect it's why some choose not to evacuate. If you have everything invested in a small business or your own home, you may be more likely to risk the wind and high waters than lose it all to looters.

[ClancyJ]

Of course it is - but that does not mean that all news must shut down.

This does not in the least take away from a national tragedy - except by those that want it to.

[BurbankKarl]

they need to light their houses on fire.

[Diddle E. Squat]

And for once he would have been right if it hadn't weakened from a Cat 5 to a Cat 4.

[LibSnubber]

Thank you and with you as well.

[Dog Gone]

You gave me the first chuckle of the day. Thanks.

[monday]

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

You are going to have to read the whole discussion before commenting on it. We are not discussing looters.

[bwteim]

Try this for general severe weather statements across US. Quite fast.

http://kamala.cod.edu/svr/

Try this rss feed for NOLA

feed://rss.nola.com/nola_Times-Picayune/index.rss

[oceanview]

do we know yet if there are reports of any people who evacuated to the east, who were stuck on the road (no gas, etc) and caught in the middle of the brunt of this thing?