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

[kx9088]

Interesting. Something heavy slam the roof on the exterior? Or just wind damage? I guess we'll know in a few weeks but hopefully in the meantime this is as far as it spreads.

[RobFromGa]

What happened to the talk about dodging the bullet? looks like they dodged the MOAB, and are about to be hit instead by something less. it's only good news in relative terms-- still there is hope that the Lake P levees will not be breached and that is where the most death, destruction and illness would come from.

[mewzilla]

It's because the field is below sea level, and might end up 20 feet under water.

Wow. Thanks. I'd thought the entire facility was above sea level. Jeepers. Another reason why it's a last resort, I guess.

[NautiNurse]

Glad to see you are still on the thread! Just rec'd a call from LA Woman3. They made it to TX. Is Ellesu still around?

[steveegg]

It looks like Katrina's trying to go through the eyewall replacement cycle now, at least on the radar shots.

Harrigan, you twit. You should've gotten back inside when you had the chance.

[Petronski]

Apparently something has happened to a portion of the Dome's roof; people are moving to the "undercover" portions of the dome.

That is ominous. At least part of the strength of the structure is going to depend on the skin of the structure.

[AmericanMade1776]

The superdome has plenty of places for the nine thousand inside to stand beside the center of the superdome...

[mware]

We are now being told that they were careful not to call the SuperDome a "shelter".

The owners of the super dome said that last year. There was a post showing the article last night. Said past 130 mph there is no guarantees.

[Vermont Lt]

In 1900 God knew we wouldnt support Isreal, so he was just warming up. Come on, you gotta brush up on your apocolyptic cryptology. //sarcasm off.

[DB]

The floor is below the possible flood level.

[mewzilla]

I'd heard that if the Red Cross couldn't guarantee the structural integrity during a storm, it couldn't be called a shelter. Well, better something than nothing. Beats being in a wooden structure at or below sea level. Sounds as though the NG is doing a great job for these folks, too.

[Carolinamom]

Piedmont section...30 miles north of Charlotte.

[chgomac]

I know, LA is so rich in history, culture and beautiful architecture I try to pray focused on the people, but the mind plays tricks and sees the Cathedral, the Garden District, the beautiful parks....then back to the important thing, the safety of the people.

[LadyBuzz]

Our men & women in uniform are just amazing!

[bobdsmith]

Local TV now reporting 47.5 feet waves.

In the superdome???