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

[Michael Goldsberry]

Morning.

Looks like we got a small blessing by way of a downgrade to cat 4.

Prayers for all involved.

[justa-hairyape]

If that eye is not directly below NO in that picture, then I need my eyes checked.

An Eye Wall of the strongest cat 4 hurricane to hit the US is going to travel over a major US City.

[SunnySide]

"yep & maybe even elect a new mayor & gov"

Next time LA citizens should elect grown ups not pretend officials.

[bobdsmith]

Okay here is an idea.

As soon as the eye moves over NO, immediately get everyone in the superdome to run outside into big trucks and drive away as quick as possible so the trucks follow the eye

[SE Mom]

Geeesh...when will people understand you cannot EXACTLY predict what a hurricane is going to do? This is the kind of mentality that I detest about liberals. They secretly- sometimes NOT secretly- expect and demand that "they" take care of "us". So if a hurricane(an act of nature, not man) behaves unpredictably, it is "their" fault.

If New Orleans gets inundated it will be THEIR fault...if it DOESN'T...it will equally be THEIR fault.

Life is a RISK..you observe, learn, consider options and take action. Maybe you take the action that proves to be best suited to the circumstances..maybe you don't. There are no guarantees.

Sorry to rant...

[OXENinFLA]

This comment is a little last but someone over at FNC needs to slap the $#!* out of their man down at the Super Dome, I think it was Greg Jarrett.

I was watching yesterday and he was talking to a National Guard guy and someone from the Super Dome.

His questions to the NG guy were fine, what you can and can't bring, the line, searches..ect.

But when he got to the guy from the Super Dome it went very close to this.

"Do you think the Super Dome will be able to withstand the 165 mph winds? You know it's only rated to 130 mph and has never been tested against strong winds like the ones headed this way. What happens if the roof fails, what will happen to the people inside?"

Not questions you should be asking right next to the line of people going inside.

[numberonepal]

Is it required that reporters get injected with a stupid drug?

Maybe an anti-creative drug. Reporters and the news in general now rely so much on pics and video they no longer know how to paint a picture.

[beyond the sea]

the insults are not necessary; i made an observation.

LOL.... no, you were whining (more than once) over the whiners. Get over it.

The subject of this thread is the WELFARE of the citizens and all other life forms in the track of this storm! Quit whining about the whiners.

[DB]

What if the road doesn't go that way?

[CurlyBill]

[spectre]

Cantore must have KNOWN Biloxi was gonna get hammered.

"He's tough, he's buff, he IS Cantore"!

sw

[OXENinFLA]

a little last = a little late,

[beyond the sea]

very soon

[benjaminjjones]

I use Firefox and an extension called ReloadEvery

Thanks, that's pretty cool.

Maybe when I finally get around to upgrading to XP from Win98SE (I've been saying that for years, LOL).

[gopwinsin04]

I'm not sure we are out of the woods yet, the Superdome have never been tested with sustained winds over 130MPH.

But it is supposedly structually sound up to 200 MPH

[Quilla]

Good morning Peach. We called to check on friends in Mobile yesterday afternoon and they were under an evacuation order at the time. We invited them to our home; however, the husband is in law enforcement and they have opted to stay.

[beyond the sea]

LOL.

[Peach]

Next time LA citizens should elect grown ups not pretend officials.

Exactly. I remain convinced that it was the president calling the mayor to convince him to order a mandatory evacuation that got the guy off the dime.

To think that we've heard for years there is a plan in place for NO and then to hear the mayor tell reporters he was meeting was lawyers because he wasn't sure he had the legal authority to order a mandatory evacuation was quite shocking.

Evidently their plan was to talk with lawyers.

[beyond the sea]

I like it.

[spanalot]

""Do you think the Super Dome will be able to withstand the 165 mph winds? You know it's only rated to 130 mph and has never been tested against strong winds like the ones headed this way. What happens if the roof fails, what will happen to the people inside?""

"Not questions you should be asking right next to the line of people going inside."

Agreed