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

[Dog Gone]

The Red Cross didn't do a perfect job of planning.

[AuH2ORepublican]

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

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Of course insurance companies covers floods, if you have flood insurance. I used to live in a flood zone and made sure to have flood insurance, even for my car, and lo and behold my car was totaled after a flood and the insurance covered every dime.

Unfortunately, most people do not buy flood insurance, even when they live in flood zones, and that's when FEMA steps in to bail them out with taxpayer money.

[mhking]

WXIA: New tornado warning for Haralson County, for the same cell that blew through Carroll County.

[BurbankKarl]

The remains of Backyard Oasis in historic downtown Covington, during Hurricane Katrina, Monday August 29, 2005. Covington Fire Department Chief Richard Badon decided not to risk the safety of firefighters on the building, which was entirely engulfed.

[WoodstockCat]

per wjtv.com : Wiggins, MS has major damage inside of the city, all streets are impassable, not able to re-enter houses tonight. curfew from 6 pm to 6 am tomorrow.

[WoodstockCat]

per wjtv.com : Wiggins, MS has major damage inside of the city, all streets are impassable, not able to re-enter houses tonight. curfew from 6 pm to 6 am tomorrow.

[RoseyT]

OMG is that rescued or recovered? :(

[r9etb]

I think as a general rule it would be a very bad thing to declare open season on looters like that. It'd be too easy for groups of looters to form their own groups of "armed, responsible citizen witnesses."

OTOH, it might not be a bad idea for the duly constituted authorities to form a "ready reserve posse" in the "well-ordered militia" sense of the term, to keep order until LEO or NG made it into the area.

[bwteim]

Thanks for the update.

[easonc52]

Straight line winds are the absolute WORST, IMO.

Actually I should have inquired about that, because I don't know what that means (was in CA most of my life before UT).

[WoodstockCat]

I'm working in Chattanooga but live in Woodstock.

[Wonder Warthog]

"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 New Orleans and the entire surrounding area became a city long before the notion of "don't build in a flood plain" was ever conceived. It's call a "grandfather clause".

[Sammie42]

thanks, I have been under tornado watch all day, this map makes it easier to check !

[RobFromGa]

just heard the update, Doppler Radar showed potential for tornado near Conyers, cell moving N at 30mph, watch out Snellville and Lawrenceville.

[cll]

I didn't want to say it but tye kid looks dead.

[AuH2ORepublican]

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

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All Kramer had to do was say "Vandelay Industries." Was that so difficult? : )

[commish]

Any news on Slidell? Unconfirmed news report syas word from Slidell City Government - "complete Devestation"

Direct Quote from Gulfport Fire Chief, "We are looking at Camille II"

[SunnySide]

Oh poor baby, that kid must've been homeless to be walking about by himself. America and it's third world poverty population. So sad.

[mhking]

Multiple cells coming in from the south. Present warnings: Gwinnett, Rockdale, Carroll, Haralson

[aft_lizard]

I believe the govt offers flood insurance in areas where regular insurance companies will not offer it.