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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII
NOAA - NHC ^ | 29 August 2005 | NOAA - NHC

Posted on 08/29/2005 2:47:45 AM PDT by 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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: hurricane; hurricanekatrina; katrina; livehurricanekatrina; tropical; weather
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To: bobdsmith
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

And with any luck, the eye will make a few key turns, then travel right up the interstate!

501 posted on 08/29/2005 5:10:17 AM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: NautiNurse

Steve's getting knocked around, anyone smaller could get blown away.


502 posted on 08/29/2005 5:10:36 AM PDT by grizzly84
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To: Types_with_Fist

I'm amazed those pumping stations don't have their own large generators. You'd think they'd work with the local utilities to colocate some combustion turbine generating capacity with the pumping stations.


503 posted on 08/29/2005 5:10:41 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: Zechariah_8_13; beyond the sea
"the pumps don't work cause the vandals took the handles"

Reminded me of that scene in the movie Airplane, and the jet is about to land. The lights of the runway go off, and they pan to the goofy guy in the tower who had pulled the plug. "Just kiddding..." says he.

LOL

504 posted on 08/29/2005 5:10:53 AM PDT by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier { Wisc. })
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To: mhking
I made an observation about the people who have b*tched and moaned all day yesterday about how the mayor and other officials were idiots for not evacuating sooner; I'm seeing people b*tch and moan this morning about this being a "cry wolf" situation.

A good observation, by the way. This "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation that inevitably gets hyped adds to leaders' indecision. It helps no one.

Ultimately, people have to act on the information they have available at the time - but when they do so it's hardly appropriate to second guess them after the fact.

505 posted on 08/29/2005 5:11:04 AM PDT by NittanyLion
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To: SunnySide

Someone was reporting that most of the casinos are built on barges, to float? He sounded pretty smart about it. Wondering if it's true.


506 posted on 08/29/2005 5:11:12 AM PDT by EBH (Never give-up, Never give-in, and Never Forget)
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To: oceanview

tune to TWC, Gulfport where Cantore is, that's where the action is going to be.


507 posted on 08/29/2005 5:11:21 AM PDT by oceanview
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To: proud American in Canada

Perhaps people could drive the storm with prayer.


508 posted on 08/29/2005 5:11:24 AM PDT by bobdsmith
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To: Types_with_Fist

Harrigans goggles won't protect against objects and glass. He ought to come in.

A big tree limb just crashed on our front window, the window is about 40 feet high from first to second floor. Window held


We just lost a tree, it went away from the house. And the wind is not that strong here.


509 posted on 08/29/2005 5:11:29 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: beyond the sea; mhking

stopitstopitstopit! My tummy gets all hurty when mommy and daddy fight!


510 posted on 08/29/2005 5:11:48 AM PDT by SlowBoat407 (A living affront to Islam since 1959)
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To: LadyBuzz

Is Steve locked out of the hotel?


511 posted on 08/29/2005 5:12:03 AM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: Fred Nerks

ABC News now live inside the New Orleans Hyatt.


512 posted on 08/29/2005 5:12:09 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: Gondring
42040 Buoy is in open water, and very deep water.

Waves should not be as bad in shallow, coastal areas.

The predicted storm surge is the real problem...

513 posted on 08/29/2005 5:12:13 AM PDT by topher (God bless and protect our troops and service personnel around the world)
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To: EBH
Someone was reporting that most of the casinos are built on barges, to float? He sounded pretty smart about it. Wondering if it's true.

I believe MS prohibits casinos built on land, so they build them out over the water. Read that here yesterday.

514 posted on 08/29/2005 5:12:16 AM PDT by NittanyLion
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To: oceanview

Oh 120 mph is a high end estimate.


516 posted on 08/29/2005 5:12:37 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: EBH

Yesterday Gov Barbour said that part of the stipulation of building the casinos was that they would have to be be "floating casinos"


517 posted on 08/29/2005 5:13:10 AM PDT by LadyBuzz
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To: SlowBoat407
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518 posted on 08/29/2005 5:13:13 AM PDT by mware (Trollhunter of Notewatermelon just)
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To: mhking

Excellent links..............


519 posted on 08/29/2005 5:13:16 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("I was just the spark the universe chose ....." --- Cindy Sheehan (barf alert))
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To: WestCoastGal
WOW!

Thanks for your vivid picture.

520 posted on 08/29/2005 5:13:17 AM PDT by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier { Wisc. })
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