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

[mware]

I did hear on wabc radio that three elderly people have died while being evacuated to super dome.

Initial reports said dehydration.

Wonder what that is about???

[WestCoastGal]

Harrigan is getting e-mail at Fox for him to put on safety goggles. Must have been one of us???

[6SJ7]

he wasn't sure he had the legal authority to order a mandatory evacuation...

Sounds like the mayor is taking the same non-action as Pres.Clinton when he had the opportunity to arrest Bin Laden.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Here's to better Good Old Days...

[GOP_Proud]

Harrigan just about fell down...well, almost knocked down. The trees behind him are laying down and he talks about how it's still not the worst.

[silentknight]

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Just heard on the live feed on WDSU, that the pumps have failed and the water is coming in, as well sewage issues in the city. Could make a bad situation even worse.

[Types_with_Fist]

pumps are down in NO.

Yeah... the power went out a half hour ago.

[gopwinsin04]

That's what ABC is saying too. Still scary though...

[Northern Yankee]

We don't get the FOX News Channel with out cable subscription, but our local radio station (WSPT 1010 AM)continues to carry FOX News coverage over the radio.

Sometimes words paint an even more vivid picture!

[SunnySide]

add the 6-8 feet of waters in low lighing streets by casinos is in Biloxi Miss.

[mewzilla]

Reports from NBC Jackson, pumps are down in NO.

All of them, some of them, did they say? I think at least some are also diesel-powered, aren't they?

[McGruff]

Anybody got a link to where to you watch TV coverage online?

[mhking]

I wish he'd get out of the wind; perhaps on the opposite side of a building or something.

[mhking]

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 WAPT-TV/DT Jackson - http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38843.asx

[LadyBuzz]

It may take me awhile to get used to Bill Hemmer on Fox - he grates at my last nerve

[SlowBoat407]

Lake Pontchartrain has been very low due to the drought. He said it was two feet below the bottom of the stairs on the sea wall, at least before the storm started. And of course the River has been very low because of the drought in the Midwest. So seems like there is the lowest water level in memory, if not history.

So much for the drought.

[Zechariah_8_13]

"the pumps don't work cause the vandals took the handles"

Thanks for the laugh in an otherwise tense situation. :)

[southlake_hoosier]

Go to MSNBC, live from Jackson NBC Affiliate

[WestCoastGal]

I'm surprised that one of the reporters from the cables didn't decide to report from the casino area. I thought yesterday that they would be in big danger there of flooding.

[gopwinsin04]

I was hoping FOX was going to put Jerry Rivers out there.