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

[GOP_Proud]

Harrigan is gonna get killed if he doesn't get inside. He's getting hit by roof debris.

[gopwinsin04]

WAPT says folks are feeling the pressure drops and the wind 'like the buildings are moving.'

[Spiff]

I just woke up (I'm in AZ so it is still early here) and turned on Fox News to see Steve Harrigan standing in the hurricane. What a moron. Get him inside now.

[CobaltBlue]

I believe the Superdome has leaked before and been patched. Bet the leak is where it was patched before. Just a guess, though.

[pragmaticgal]

Would somebody please tell that Steve Harrigan to go inside? He's ridiculous. I'm more interested in what type of rain suit he's wearing than in his heroics in the hurricane. Sheesh.

[RobFromGa]

Wait'll he takes a Yield Sign in his spleen.

[steveegg]

Harrigan has GOT to get inside.

He can't; they locked him out of the hotel.

[Admin Moderator]

People misbehaving.

[mrobison]

NOAA is right:

"Eventually the outer eyewall replaces the inner one completely and the storm can be the same intensity as it was previously or, in some cases, even stronger."

Source: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/D8.html

You are wrong.

[spectre]

Go inside? Peach, the guy is asking to get hit!

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[WKB]

Harrigan has GOT to get inside




Harrigan has GOT to get a brain first!!!

[Right_in_Virginia]

According to MSNBC, NO has been spared the worst of the storm. Those 40 miles to the East of NO will bear the worst. (Biloxi, MS)

[Petronski]

Extreme naughtiness!

[DB]

I would have thought they'd have diesel generators (or pumps) on site ready to go... Amazing... Considering the consequences...

[SE Mom]

Yes...but he is SUCH a hoot (and really a good reporter) - just now he said "well now we have gutters coming off and a piece of roof just flew by"...he says this in such a matter-of-fact tone. I just love him.

[sheikdetailfeather]

Harrigan is locked out now. I hope they can hear him knocking now to get back in!

[WestCoastGal]

"some of the Levees at Lake Pontchartrain have been breeched."

Unfortunately the worst part of this thing is still to come over NO.

Also, Harrigan needs to go inside now!!

[sarasota]

Brian Williams/NBC was reporting from the Superdome last night. And I heard this morning they aren't allowing camera crews inside.

[mewzilla]

I thought all of the pumps were electric, but some could also operate on diesel, which makes a heck of a lot of sense if you think about it, to have a back-up like that. So hopefully, if it's a power issue and not maintenance problems, at least some of the pumps are still working.

[gopwinsin04]

There is so much media inside the Superdome at this point, we are going to know if Brian Williams eats a ham sandwich.