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

[kittymyrib]

What a bonanza for the inept city government of NO this storm will be! They will have the feds replace the shacks in the 9th Ward with new dwellings. They will get the non-working pumps replaced with ones that do work. It will take billions of our tax dollars for all sort of reconstruction projects. Someone better monitor it very carefully though, because the leaders are no less adept at looting than their citizens. They could have replaced many of these ancient diesel pumps if the corruption endemic to NO hadn't made rich men of past and present officials.

[SlowBoat407]

Just wondering..if you go out in the Gulf in a powerboat..and manage to tie onto an oil platform that broke loose, and is floating by..if there's NO one aboard, can you make a salvage claim...?

I believe you'd have to be able to prove you were actually in control of the salvage (not the other way around).

[Crawdad]

Like Winn Dixie didn't have enough problems.

[Mister Baredog]

CNN reported earlier about a grocery store being looted....

Living in LA(Los Angeles) I'm quite familiar with this behavior. I watched stores being looted as if someone had invited them in to take all they could carry. It was a party. Very scary.

[Jrabbit]

So they did film it? Good. Thanks.

[bwteim]

Click here for current radar. The radar serving Berry is down for maintenance.

http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?num=4&scale=1&delay=50&noclutter=1&showstorms=10&showlabels=1&ID=GWX&lat=33.49948502&lon=-87.68641663&label=Berry%2C+AL&type=N0R&zoommode=pan&map.x=400&map.y=240&centerx=400&centery=240&prevzoom=zoom

[fooman]

I agree completely. see post 4111.

[Quick Shot]

Maritime law answer is yes, but the legal action the oil company would take would make you wish you had not wrestled with that monster. Big oil wins most of their lawsuits in LA.

[silentknight]

Any news on Slidell?

[rolling_stone]

Crash and carry instead of cash and carry...

[sfimom]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[SunnySide]

http://www.intellicast.com/WeatherImg/CurrentWeather/usa.jpg

I knew it(see storm track). TN and northern GA. gonna get bounced.

[r9etb]

Then howcome in Dallas you cannot build on a flood plain? Should those people also be entitled to build there and expect the taxpayer to pay for all flood damage?

Because in Dallas those floods happen at least once a year.

[Crawdad]

Don't know. I'm in Kennesaw.

[SlowBoat407]

Wouldn't you also suddenly be liable for any damage done by the rig?

[Howlin]

No, I do not; but I have been gone almost all afternoon.

[ken5050]

Oh..I see..you have to have "control"...then it's like the line from "Jaws"..."I think we're gonna need a bigger boat.."

[BurbankKarl]

Hurricane Katrina flooded yards on Hastings Street in Metairie

[RobFromGa]

I'm in Gwinnett and we're under Tornado Warning.

[Howlin]

There is another choice: shoot on sight. :-)