Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part IX

NOAA - NHC and Various ^ | 29 August 2005 | NOAA - NHC

[NautiNurse]

Hurricane Katrina made landfall today at 6:10AM CDT, and she continues to drive northward into Mississippi and Alabama. Several local radar sites are down. Tornado and flash flood watches and warnings are widespread.

President Bush has declared major disaster areas, clearing the way for federal aid.

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

Wind Speed Data

Images:

Birmingham AL Radar

Mobile Long Range Radar Loop

Memphis Radar

Montgomery AL Long Range Radar

Storm Floater IR Loop
Storm Floater Still & Loop Options
Color Enhanced IR Loop

Other Resources:

Birmingham AL Weather
Meridian MS Weather (Radar down at this time)
Jackson MS Weather (Radar down at this time)

Hurricane Katrina NOLA Photos

Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII
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

[bayourant]

I guess Our Lady of Prompt Succor really does protect New ORleans. Even though the damage is awlful I don't think the damage was as bad as Gulfport area but it will take days to figure that out. NOLA dodged a bullet last night. When Katrina started shifiting at the absolute last moment last night it was a miracle.

[RobFromGa]

Why did CNN fire him???

They did a routine physical and learned that he has a brain.

[smonk]

talked to my folks. they say things are clearing up at their location, about midway between laurel and collins on hwy 84.

the eastern side of the house is pretty well shingle-less, trees are down, and one fell on the house. leaks all over the house.

apparently the eye just missed them to the west. but they are okay. he put his directv dish back up, plugged the receiver into the generator, and he's watching foxnews right now :)

NHC says they measured a 110 mph gust in laurel.

[dennis1x]

The nasty little story about Andrew was that thousands were killed but NOAA reported only a couple of dozen,massive cover up there.

LOL....i thought aliens abducted those people....im glad it was just NOAA. ahhhh the internets...you gotta love it.

[WoodstockCat]

the Ted Turner transplant failed and as such he was expendable.

[Howlin]

Oh, lord; I hadn't even thought of that!

[nwctwx]

I see that there are two more areas of interest between here and Africa. Hopefully they'll amount to nothing. We're going to need a rest.

Most of the Atlantic is pretty unfavorable for storms to get to strong. Unfortunately, I doubt we have seen the last GOM hurricane of the yr.

[silentknight]

Thanks for that info...if you get more please post it.

[Dog Gone]

First report I saw was that a Drilling Rig is what had impacted the I-10 bridge, but it is also possible that it is the USS ALABAMA, which has reportedly "disappeared" from it's moorings

Where was that report? That does not sound credible.

[bwteim]

Excellent info--can we get same info for areas in lower MS and LA posted please?

Here ya go:


Alabama Department of Transportation: Emergency Road Closures
http://www.dot.state.al.us/closures/

Alabama Department of Transportation: Press Releases: Hurricane Katrina
http://www.dot.state.al.us/Docs/Bureaus/Public+Affairs/

Louisiana DOT:
http://www.dotd.state.la.us/roadclosures/default.asp
Search form:
http://www.dotd.state.la.us/roadclosures/search.asp

Mississippi DOT Web Site:
http://www.mdot.state.ms.us/

Realtime Traffic for Mississippi:
http://www.mstraffic.com/upgrade/default.aspx

[Peach]

The nasty little story about Andrew was that thousands were killed but NOAA reported only a couple of dozen,massive cover up there.

You're kidding. Right? That would be a pretty hard thing to cover up.

[Republican Red]

I time Hemmer's being "bumped" from CNN with his very respectful coverage of the pope's funeral. CNN will not tolerate repsect towards Catholics. lol

Actually, I see I was wrong. He wasn;t fired but rather left CNN after being fired from their morning show. From Washington Post:

"A contract dispute with CNN became public in May when Hemmer told a reporter the Atlanta-based network wanted him to give up his co-anchor spot on "American Morning" and move to Washington to become senior White House correspondent. Hemmer, who wanted to stay in New York for personal reasons, was soon replaced on the show by Miles O'Brien, who shares anchoring duties with the similarly named but unrelated Soledad O'Brien."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/19/AR2005071901464.html

[silentknight]

Yeah didn't you know that NOAA was in the business of padding the "death counts" from tropical storms and hurricanes? They have to keep the toll below 100. Word is that if it goes above 100 then they might lose funding. /heh

[wardaddy]

Pontchatrain surge was measure at 10-12 feet.

I just saw feed of 90 at Gulfport and the surge had lapped over US90 a bit.

I would guess as a now fully professional metorlogist that the surge at 45% NE from the eye to have been approximately 16 feet....mostly Waveland...not Pass Christian.

LOL...just kidding

[Strategerist]

The idea of NOAA behind a grand conspiracy like that is pretty laughable...bunch of weather nerds.

Anyway, they'd have no compelling motivation to do so; the NHC forecast for Andrew was about as perfect as one could reasonably expect for 1992.

The whole silly Andrew "Coverup" story is something I've seen on multiple threads on multiple weather enthusiast boards the last decade; there's never any actual evidence, just someone that heard from their sister that heard from her hairdresser that the hairdresser's brother's friend was a police officer who knew another police officer that saw trucks full of bodies in bodybags being secretly trucked away.

[Diddle E. Squat]

What I didn't realize until recently was that "the bowl" that is New Orleans is actually 3 bowls, separated on the near east side of the city by the levees along the Industrial Canal and the Intercoastal Waterway. Hence when the hurricane went just far enough east and lost just enough strength before the winds on the lake shifted to from the north, the biggest bowl, with all the TV cameras, was spared. But the catastrophe of a bowl filling took place in the smallest bowl, the one on the ESE, when the Miss. River overtopped a levee near Arabi, and perhaps in other places. Also heard of some isolated overtopping along the lake, which appears to have been in the northeast bowl.

[hoosiermama]

lol Good one!

[rodguy911]

My wife worked at a resort where the guys who ran bulldozers stayed. They came in for dinner every night and talked about the bodies they had dug up.

[abb]

And here's Florida road closures

http://www.eoconline.org/EM_Live/roadstat.nsf

[MEG33]

Good news..