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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
NHC-NOAA ^ | 27 August 2005 | NHC-NOAA

Posted on 08/26/2005 10:25:04 PM PDT by NautiNurse

Hurricane Katrina continues to strengthen in the Gulf of Mexico. Currently, the forecast models are converging upon New Orleans. However, all interests in the northern Gulf of Mexico should follow the path of this storm, and be prepared for a major hurricane landfall. Throughout Friday, the official track forecasts moved west, as Hurricane Katrina delayed making the anticipated northwest turn.

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
Bouy Data Louisiana/Mississippi

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
Hurricane City
Crown Weather Tropical Website Offers a variety of storm info, with some nice track graphics

Live streaming:


WFOR-TV Miami: http://dayport.wm.llnwd.net/dayport_0025_live
WWL-TV New Orleans: mms://beloint.wm.llnwd.net/beloint_wwltv
HurricaneCity.com: http://hurricanecity.com/live.ram
WTSP-TV Tampa: mms://wmbcast.gannett.speedera.net/wmbcast.gannett/wmbcast_gannett_jan032005_0856_78183
WKRG-TV Mobile mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_jul072005_1144_93320

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: byebyebigeasy; hurricane; hurricanekatrina; katrina; livehurricanekatrina; miami; tropical; weather
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Too many idiots like my dumb liberal sister and bil did not trust someone of East Indian ancestry. I made sure to remind them just how incompetant the dingbat was in the press conference.


1,201 posted on 08/27/2005 5:25:28 PM PDT by CajunConservative
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To: BurbankKarl

Could give the term "dead drunk" a whole new meaning.


1,202 posted on 08/27/2005 5:25:30 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: Blennos

Right now, we are staying. Everyone around me seems to be doing the same....


1,203 posted on 08/27/2005 5:26:57 PM PDT by LA Woman3
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To: LA Woman3

here is a piece from scanbatonrouge yahoogroup:

Subject: Hurricane preparations and monitoring

With the approaching storm, many in our area are either getting out of
town or battening down the hatches. Now is the time to take care of
everything you need to do before it gets here. Once you've done
everything you can to prepare your family and home you may want to
settle in for some scanning.
During times like these you will hear lots of radio traffic. Some
things to keep an ear open for,
Local and State Police on their usual and standby (Tac) frequiencies.
Public Works/Maintiance channels. They will be busy before the storm
prepping things and then afterwards responding to many calls for
service.
and
"Public" services such as CB, FRS, GMRS and Ham Radio.
Right now I'm monitoring several bands.
I'm listening to the Iberville Sheriff's Office deputies as they are
checking with all of the area Gas stations to make sure they are ready
for the storm. I'm hearing things like, "The Tiger (truckstop) says
they just has a shipment this morning and are getting another fuel
truck in this evening." "The Chevron station owner says that he has
plenty with more on teh way tonight and should have gas as long as he
has electricity." "The Mobile says they will be out by this evening if
they don't get a truck soon." Ect..
Other public safety freqs I'm listening to include area Fire
Department page out frequencies.
Contraflow is set to begin at 4pm today and many evacuees will be
using radio to stay in touch. Monitoring CB channel 19 will get you
lots of highway information as you travel. At home I'm listening to
CB channel 9 for emergency trafic.
While CB is still an option, in the last few years many people have
purchased short range FRS radios. While at home I'll be monitoring
FRS channel 1.
On the GMRS band I'm keeping a radio tuned to the Baton Rouge GMRS
repeater at 462.675. This repeater has good range and is open to
anyone with a valid GMRS license.
The Ham radio bands are always active during storms as Hams provide
communications for relief agencies such as the Red Cross and the
Salvation Army. I'm monitoring the ham radio National 2 meter calling
freq of 146.52. If you have some of the area ham radio repeaters
programmed into your scanner you are certain to hear plenty of
traffic, from informal conversations on some machines to formal
directed nets to help with shelter operations.
I've received the following in an Email from the Ascension Amateur
Radio Club today,
" We have been activated by the Ascension OEP for the purpose of
emergency communications effective 3 p.m. Sunday August 28, 05.
Shelters will open at 5 p.m. Sunday August 28th,.
We are being called for all members, and any others that would like to
volunteer to assist in our role of providing Emergency communication's
for the Ascension OEP."
So if you live in the Ascension Parish area listen for shelter ops on
the AARC primary 2 meter repeater frequency of 147.225.
There's plenty of stuff to hear out there this weekend. Charge up your
batteries, put your emergency kit together and then sit back and
monitor the airwaves.


1,204 posted on 08/27/2005 5:27:12 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: realpatriot

D'oh! I live 20 miles from it and always mix the name up with the one in Kenner.


1,205 posted on 08/27/2005 5:28:41 PM PDT by mwp99
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To: SunnySide

People that do not heed the warnings to evacuate put the fire, rescue, police etc. at risk when they have to go in and get them. Nagin should tell them if you don't leave you will just have to wait until this is over to be rescued. Sink or Swim.


1,206 posted on 08/27/2005 5:28:46 PM PDT by Ellesu (www.thedeadpelican.com)
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To: rwfromkansas

gfdl shows 918 MB well offshore still and 920 at new Orleans...likley even lower between the two


1,207 posted on 08/27/2005 5:30:40 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: BurbankKarl
those people will drink right through it....those bars wont close down!

drink water

1,208 posted on 08/27/2005 5:33:34 PM PDT by beyond the sea ("I was just the spark the universe chose ....." --- Cindy Sheehan (barf alert))
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To: BurbankKarl
New Orleans Streaming Music Online Lots of good old New Orleans jazz
1,209 posted on 08/27/2005 5:34:38 PM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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To: USAF0021
The pressure at the surface is extrapolated (EXTRAP) from the 700 mb level in order to get an estimate. (The hurricane hunters can't actually fly near the surface, they fly above where the winds are less violent (This is true for warm core cyclones, winds decrease with height, which is the opposite for cold core cyclones (the typical L's that you see at the midlatitudes on a weather map)) It says the height where 700 mb is found is at 2604 meters, so they use an equation that estimates what the pressure would be if you brought a parcel of air at the 700 mb level down due to the surface.

Thanks, that makes perfect sense.

1,210 posted on 08/27/2005 5:34:56 PM PDT by snowsislander
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To: CajunConservative

You are exactly right....he (Jindal)was too dark for the Republicans and too light for the Democrats. What a shame. He would have been awesome for Louisiana.


1,211 posted on 08/27/2005 5:35:18 PM PDT by LA Woman3
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To: LA Woman3
get out NOW..and i mean NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!DO NOT wait i am been tracking storms for 20 years and have never seen anything like this..expect gilbert and mitch..
the storm is bombing now....and growing in size..even if iy mises you by 20 miles you will still get cat 3 winds when a large wind field forms
1,212 posted on 08/27/2005 5:36:42 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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1,213 posted on 08/27/2005 5:38:07 PM PDT by Torie
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To: BurbankKarl

Those bars will flood, several drunks will drown. It's really like watching one of those disaster movies. "Hurricane", instead of "Twister" or "Earthquake".


1,214 posted on 08/27/2005 5:38:15 PM PDT by Ellesu (www.thedeadpelican.com)
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To: LA Woman3
7:30PM CDT New Orleans Local Hurricane Advisory
1,215 posted on 08/27/2005 5:39:09 PM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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To: NautiNurse

Fox reporter says that thee are many foreign tourists in NO, and that they apparently are unaware a hurricane is coming. Said he had people come up to him on the street where he was broadcasting and asked him if he was making a movie. He told them he was covering the approaching hurricane and they didn't know anything about it.


1,216 posted on 08/27/2005 5:39:09 PM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's son and keep him strong.)
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To: LA Woman3

Yes he would have had things running smoothly and all the right resources ready to go. Let this be a lesson to all that dumb democrat women should never ever be elected to a position where lives depend on their ability to lead.

Anyway rant off about blanko. Look at this link for the latest maps, etc... It's out of Beaumont.

http://www.ih2000.net/ira/bmt-wth.htm


1,217 posted on 08/27/2005 5:39:48 PM PDT by CajunConservative
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To: Miss Marple

OMG--that is truly frightening.


1,218 posted on 08/27/2005 5:39:57 PM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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To: BurbankKarl

Thanks for the info....we are actually closer to East Baton Rouge parish; northern Ascension.


1,219 posted on 08/27/2005 5:40:18 PM PDT by LA Woman3
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To: CajunConservative

Nice site--I'll add the link to the next thread.


1,220 posted on 08/27/2005 5:41:29 PM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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