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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
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 |
"The hurricane hindered the Coast Guard's search early Friday for a family of five who went out on their 24-foot pleasure boat. A Coast Guard helicopter finally found Edward and Tina Larsen and their three children. Their conditions were not immediately known."
I can never understand why some people aren't clued in to get the heck out of harms way, especially with kids in tow!! These boating imbecils had no business being out in a boat thus putting coast guardsmen in harms way too. Needless.
Can you post a link to the traffic cams?
The derranged portion of the fundamentalist crowd speculated that God sent the recent hurricanes to Florida because of all the gay people. I suspect we'll hear them mouth off about the debauchery of the French Quarter being responsible for any catastrophe in NOLA.
Thank you for some of my relatives down that way.
Plaquemines orders evacuation
Mandatory order comes as Katrina's aims at N.O.
Plaqumines Parish President Benny Rousselle has issued a Phase I mandatory evacuation for all of Plaquemines Parish.
The latest forecast track for Hurricane Katrina - issued at 4 a.m. CDT - has the strengthening storm crossing lower Plaquemines, then north on a line directly across the New Orleans metro area.
The storm has intensified and is now a Category 3, with sustained winds of 115 mph and higher gusts. Some major models have it strengthening to a Category 4, or even Category 5 by landfall Monday evening. It is moving to the west near 7 mph and is approximately 430 miles southeast on the mouth of the Mississippi River. A gradual turn to the west-northwest is expected during the next 24 hours.
Gov. Kathleen Blanco declared a state of emergency late Friday, making it easier to implement emergency procedures, including evacuations, if necessary.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said he will make a decision about evacuations and other emergency procedures today about noon.
Katrina, the 11th named storm of a busy season, was upgraded to Category 3 as it moved deeper into the Gulf of Mexico, after crossing Florida yesterday. Homes were flooded, fallen trees blocked roads and utility crews scrambled to restore power to more than 1 million homes and businesses Friday as South Floridians coped with Hurricane Katrina's messy aftermath.
Seven deaths were blamed on the storm as it crossed Florida. Much of the seven hours Katrina spent over land Thursday was over the moist Florida Everglades, allowing for only slight weakening.
"We were looking at it going up the East Coast two days ago and now it's looking like it will hit the central Gulf Coast," said Larry Ingargiola, director of the St. Bernard Parish Emergency Preparedness. "Like we always say, the only one who knows where a storm will go is the man upstairs."
More worrisome was that experts with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned that the hurricane's track could move even further west, Ingargiola said.
"We just hope our people are prepared," he said. "It's kind of late in the year to be making disaster plans."
William Maestri, the emergency director for Jefferson Parish, said he was concerned about the movement west and how it was intensifying.
http://www.nola.com
Love your tagline! Rofl!
I am about 20 miles north of Orlando and it is nice enough to go out in your bathing suit. Billowy clouds and a bit breezy but the only bad weather expected out of this is brief downpours midday and 5pm with a slight wind as an outer band from the cane comes across.
http://www.dotd.state.la.us/press/traffic_cameras/cameras_no.asp?camera=Cam4
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...It's an extremely scary and helpless feeling...
..I went through this last year, and we exhausted ourselves buying and boarding the house....(you should see all the new hurricane shutters around our neighborhood since the new season began)...
I remember how tense and helpless I felt....trying to secure our home...
..checking & securing elderly parents...and gathering together our daughter and her family and deciding if or when we would leave and where.
Plus the nightmare of actually finding housing somewhere.
We had the luxury of time and found a nice place to wait out the storm...(the first time)...
..the second time, a different story.
God bless you and yours....
..secure what you can, and get your family out of there.
Take your valuable papers, and if you have time, take pictures of your home, inside and out, for insurance purposes...(hopefully you won't need this!)
Call now for a hotel/motel reservation....get yours cars topped off with gas....stay calm....and pray!
But if you're in the pathway......GO!
Thanks! Are you listening to 870 AM?
Made the name from making base chemicals at an olefins plant.
Do you have an alternate link for that model? The graphic isn't visible.
"I suspect we'll hear them mouth off about the debauchery of the French Quarter being responsible for any catastrophe in NOLA."
No, but what about the skeevey bacteria lingering in every restroom in the French Quarter? I was afraid to enter one just thinking about decades of drunken, puking Mardi Gras partiers..GAG!
i suspect the pressure will be up some...storm looks weaker then it did 6 hours ago..
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