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

[BureaucratusMaximus]

Insane. The worst is still to come. Eyewall won't hit for another hour. just came over Fox

Sheesh....the worst is over....the worst is yet to come...

Does anyone know WTH they're talking about?

[DB]

The national hurricane center reported a couple of minutes ago that the north-west eyewall of the storm will pass over NO in about an hour.

[Moolah]

Anyone else think Steve Harrigan is acting like a drama king?

Whoa, whoa!

[jeffers]

"Ed Reams of WDSU: Daylight seen through roof of Superdome. Reporter has sense a big piece is about
to "peel off." Something like a 1/12th slice of the pie."

Keep in mind that churches and orphanages lost roofs in the Galveston hurricane and many inside were able to survive. They got wet, and some had to swim for it, but the heavy walls protected them from the flying debris.

Brian Williams from NBC seeing daylight inside the dome, Nat'l Guard moving refugees under second tier overhangs.

[cyborg]

I guess people are moving away. This CNN reporter is explaining it pretty well.

[EBH]

Can you imagine the people inside and their reactions as rain and wind find their way in. Here's hoping the breach isn't large enough for a gust to really lift the roof off. Although time will be a major factor in the strength now, with a roof breach.

[WestCoastGal]

"New Orleans Hyatt, he says the upper 25th story windows are now shattering. "

The weather service also said in their report that those tall buildings will be swaying. I would not want to be in there today!!

[queenkathy]

When I woke up I thought they were saying it would be better now because it had moved a little and it's a cat 4 instead of 5.

So it's still not good huh?

[WKB]

The Saints have been getting blown away in the Super Dome
for 40 years and they survived.

[Right_in_Virginia]

OK, Steve....get the heck inside. We don't want too lose one of Fox's best reporters.

[11th_VA]

LOL on Trent and his book !!!

I found one Burbon street cam working - no that there's much to see:

http://www.nola.com/beadcam/

[BureaucratusMaximus]

What a maroon.

[NonValueAdded]

Oooh

[WestCoastGal]

"My family looks to be getting the worst of this storm. My dad lives in Long Beach MS...right in the eye's way it appears. My sister lives in Hancock county, also getting the worst of it."

Oh dear, many prayers sent for all.

[Petronski]

**rimshot**

[sarasota]

What's an "Anderson Cooper moment"?

[mrobison]

ba da bing

[Trident/Delta]

I have a tendancy to take data from NWS and the NHC over a panicy newsie any day. Harrigan going indoors now

Semper fi

[GOP_Proud]

Yay! Steve is finally going inside. It's bad there.

[CobaltBlue]

Is your dad's house close to the beach? Or your sister?

Regardless, I will pray for them. But hope they are far away from the storm surge, or got to higher ground.