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

[bobdsmith]

What about rivers, buildings, fallen trees, you know, those things that are hard to drive over?

Shoot them off the road.

[spanalot]

"The Superdome won't see sustained winds higher than 120 mph...'"

I wonder if the ability to generate more detailed weather models is also allowing for the "documentation " of higher and higher instananeous speeds that are not necessarily real.

Is there any real evidence of any of the observation posts , buoys etc measuring anything near 150 mph ?

The on ly thing that I have seen jump that high is the price of oil.

[GOP_Proud]

Harrigan just got blown two feet...screaming "oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo".

[mewzilla]

Great links! Thanks!

[oceanview]

the southwest quadrant of the storm is losing strength.

[VRWCTexan]

That was in Baton Rouge - nursing home bus trapped in traffic for hours with 3 dead on board....

[WestCoastGal]

He just about went down there. Yikes

[Peach]

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

Perfect analogy.

[southlake_hoosier]

Live report from Homeland Security, reported via NBC in Jackson. Said they were down, too much water.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Me a PETA Troll?

You must never have read any of my post before...

[GOP_Proud]

I meant TEN feet.

[spectre]

Oh dear..those casinos are going to be flooded.

Steve is going to go over the rainbow, if he doesn't seek shelter.

[Strategerist]

You're unlikely to see an actual surface measurement of Cat 4 strength winds anywhere from this storm.

[gopwinsin04]

Pascougla, Miss reports gusts of 113 MPH.

[Fred Nerks]

bookmark

[mhking]

I have nothing more to say to you; I asked you not to continue the insults. Yet you FRMailed me to fuss.

Please do not message me or FRMail me.

Constructive conversation apparently is not something you wish to engage in.

[LadyBuzz]

Steve said they just locked the hotel - he needs to go inside - his heroics are serving no purpose

[WestCoastGal]

"Sometimes words paint an even more vivid picture! "

I can imagine. He's leaning into the wind, almost went down. The hotel/building? is locking them out now. They said better get out of there and he says you take care of your end, I will take care of my end!! Way to go Harrigan.

[oceanview]

I don't even think NO will get that, the southwestern side of the storm is weakening.