Hurricane/TS Katrina Live Thread, Part II

NHC - NOAA ^ | 26 August 2005 | NHC - NOAA

[NautiNurse]

Katrina is emerging into the very warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico early this morning after making landfall in SE Florida, then tracking SW. Thus far, she is well ahead of schedule, leaving at least four fatalities in her wake, and well over 1 million without electricity.

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
Buoy Data Florida

Images:

Key West Experimental Radar Subject to delays and outages - and well worth the wait

Excellent South FL radar loop

Tampa Bay Long Range Radar Loop

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

Other Resources:

Florida East Coast Surf Reports Lots of great info here, including surf cams
Central Florida Hurricane Center
Hurricane City

Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I

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

[Howlin]

I think so.

"The interstate 40 bridge, officially titled as the Hernando Desoto Memorial bridge, is often known as "M" for Memphis, "M" for Mississippi, or apparently to local boatmen as the Dolly Parton bridge."

[Howlin]

That's not the "Dolly Parton bridge."

[NautiNurse]

I take full responsibility for not posting the 50K limit for graphics at the start of this thread. Have done it for most all the other hurricane threads, and those went along without problems.

If you must, please explain why a descriptive link is a big problem in lieu of posting the graphic.

[Spiff]

Google Earth

US High-res National Radar from NSSL / U. of Okla. data layer for Google Earth

Live Tropical Data and NHC Storm Forecast Models data layer for Google Earth.

[Howlin]

Here's a good place to start looking:

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/postlist.php/Cat/0/Board/currentEvents

[MagnoliaMS]

I like it. I'm on dial-up and it came right in, no problem.

[onyx]

Nauti Nurse works hard on these threads and she deserves credit, appreciation and thanks.

I know she's not looking for a fight and neither am I.

[NonValueAdded]

Anyine else following the Key West radar? The eye seemed to leap to the west in the last two sequences of the long range loop. At first I thought it was a hole in the time sequence but the timestamps show 4 minute intervals. 'sup with that?

[NautiNurse]

Yep--saw that a little while ago. Interesting

[Spiff]

If you must, please explain why a descriptive link is a big problem in lieu of posting the graphic.

Because links-only sucks. We can post graphics to threads because that is the format of this political forum and it is one of the things that makes it enjoyable. I've had several posts commending the graphics and asking that they continue. I'm not trying to hurt anyone, I'm trying to be helpful. There's no reason why reasonably-sized graphics can't be posted to a Free Republic thread.

[onyx]

Hey you! Where have you been? Do you know I am full time, 24/7 in Vicksburg now?

[NonValueAdded]

Never mind ... I was concentrating on the minutes and didn't see the hour were different.

[eastforker]

One is no problem, try 10 in a 50 post set.

[Spiff]

Nauti Nurse works hard on these threads and she deserves credit, appreciation and thanks.

That's fine. I understand. I'm not complaining about NautiNurse, I'm complaining about eastforker.

I appreciate what NautiNurse does here.

[Howlin]

This one?

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/byx_NCR_lp.shtml

I've been watching it on and off today; I have a really BAD eye for that kind of thing, Non, and I depend on you guys to tell me!

[Spiff]

One is no problem, try 10 in a 50 post set.

A kind suggestion: If I were you I would reduce the number of posts you're displaying. I'm on broadband all the time and I still only display 20 at a time.

[NautiNurse]

I will tell you why. Those of us who live on the coast, and actually lose sleep and property due to these storms use these hurricane threads to share information. As these deadly storms near landfall, the traffic on these hurricane threads increase dramatically (over 12,000 hits in a few hours). The graphics really show down the threads.

Links are a perfectly viable alternative.

[MagnoliaMS]

Hey, there! Yes, yes, yes, and I am so happy you are finally home!! Might better batten down the hatches, though. ;)

[onyx]

I know. I traced eastforker's comments AFTER she posted that comment to me...lol... which is why I asked if he/she was in a bad mood.

[onyx]

200 miles from the gulfcoast! You think? Maybe lots of rain, (which we NEED) but the river is LOW - like at less than 2 feet.

* Have not seen a snake either... and "I" crawled under the house one day to have a look at where the basement begins and ends...lol.