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

[Squantos]

His reporting is silly, yeah it's windy so get behind something and stand up an report vs acting like a paid kite clown or the wind sock he's appearing to be......but hey it makes for great theater......:o)

[CobaltBlue]

Levees breached on the lake means the pumps can't drain the city, at least not the ones that pump into the lake.

There are some that pump into the Mississippi, they will have to do all the work.

There will be deep water in the lower neighborhoods, which is where the poorest people live, in the crummiest structures, the ones that have termite damage.

Bad news. Pray.

[TonyInOhio]

I ask for prayers for all those in LA and MS!!

Offering prayers for your family and all in danger today. May God bless them.

[StatenIsland]

CNN reporter is seeing daylight INSIDE the Dome. Estimates 8% of the roof has blown away ( a pie-shaped section about 1/12th of the entire span).

[WestCoastGal]

They are not out of the woods in NO, the wind will change and come from the north over Lake Ponchartrain and if the levee's fail the flooding will begin. That's in about an hour.

[gopwinsin04]

Sustained winds mow approaching 120 MPH near NOLA on ABC News.

[glock rocks]

Harrigan...

[mewzilla]

I think reporters are looking for a live kill on television. This is just nuts.

Anything for the Money Shot. Sigh.

[mrobison]

If that happens, the people will be sucked out.

[eastforker]

But once it starts its only a matter of time and the worst is yet to come.

[cyborg]

Good grief... 1/12 the size of the roof???Well wherelse people were to go? Hopefully, they'll be fine.

[maggief]

A Super Bowl. ;)

[NautiNurse]

Thank you for the update

[spectre]

Oh noooo.

[WestCoastGal]

Only a temporary fix, but I filled up the tank yesterday morning. 1/2 tank cost me $40.00

[American in Israel]

Debris flying where Steve Harrigan is.

I was in Guam when a hurricane with sustained 70mph winds decapitated a neighbor women with a sheet of corrugated tin. The man better go inside, or forever become famous posthumously.

[TheBigB]

Morning, Cy. :) My BIL's family is in LA...Lake Charles, I wanna say (although that may not be right). My Sis said yesterday they were all okay.

[bobdsmith]

Can't they hide in the corridors?