Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI

NOAA - NHC ^ | 28 August 2005 | NOAA - NHC

[NautiNurse]

Extremely dangerous Hurricane Katrina is bearing down on the North Central Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans metro area. Thousands of people did not evacuate New Orleans. Outer bands of Katrina are reaching the Louisiana coast.

Due to the size and intensity of this storm, all interests in the North Gulf of Mexico should be in their safe locations.

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

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:

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

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

[norton]

"Could you imagine being stuck on the Lake Pontratrain Causeway with darkness, waves starting to crash over, and winds starting to howl?"

Corpus Christi to Fluour Bluff NAS, 1965?/6? but fortunately I was the ONLY one out there and made it before the Hurricane - deffinately NOT a grade 5.

[Ingtar]

Watching it over the course of the last few hours on satellite. She has jogged around a bit, but she is almost exactly on the last predicted track. It is getting to the point that it will take a large change in direction to spare New Orleans.

[HuronMan]

You're right. No one should be inside any building with a large span roof in a wind storm like this....domed stadium, theater, gymnasium, roller rink, etc. The chance that the entire roof will cave in is very high. A building where the roof is supported at many points by a forest of columns or interior loadbearing walls is far preferable.

[homemom]

Yep, if he knew about the chocolate you were not sharing (for his own good) he would thank you. But you don't want him to feel any more indebted to you than he already is, so it would be kindest just to keep your altruism to yourself.

:-)

(are you near where the hurricane is going to hit??)

[solitas]

...diying...

do-it-yourself-ing?

[Doogle]

...being a Yankee fan, just at the convention?


Doogle

[cincinnati65]

The Superdome does hold 70,000......sitting in seats to watch a game.

Sleeping and feeding arrangements for long-term refugees will considerably reduce the capacity.

[maggief]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Carlson

[Howlin]

LOL.......do you just scan FR, waiting to find a thread to post something about your 'Heels on?

Grumble......grumble...

[Founding Father]

Westwego Mayor: most left;chance water will top levee;impact--awful lot of water and wind, good chance water will top levee, will take time to get water out; if over 7 ft surge trouble;expect 30 so we'll get hit;model shows large area to be underwater;only 20% stayed behind--not happy with that;we'll try to watch over them;only one shelter; majority of fire equipment gone to Lafayette-will be back as soon as storm is over; my family is gone; we're waiting.

[Windcatcher]

There's a set of tracks near me from the old PA Central Railroad. When Agnes came through she either undermined the creek where the tracks go alongside, or moved the tracks into the water. Either way, if you walk them today, the tracks dip off a 25' cliff, go down into the water, cone up to the top of the cliff again, and then do it all over again. I don't know if the rails had been originally welded together or whatever is keeping them together, but it's the darndest thing you ever saw.

[oceanview]

$2.69 in NY just now, they have not raised it yet.

[CFC__VRWC]

Bastardi on FNC now, trashing the idea that its "weakening".

That's the best news I've heard all night - whenever Bastardi says a hurricane will do something, it usually does the exact opposite!

[NautiNurse]

What did I miss about fires?

[SE Mom]

OMG- it's a perfect storm. Look at the "stadium" effect..

[mabelkitty]

Here's the causeway.
The large dots are the light poles.
The smaller dots are car headlights.
I've been watching it all afternoon.

http://images.ibsys.com/no/images/weather/auto/causewaycam_640x480.jpg

I won't be going to sleep tonight.

[RDTF]

Like that movie - what was it with gene Hackman and Shelly Winters - oh 'The Poseiden Adventure' (sp.)

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

I sort of guessed that's what you meant ... but I am a curmudgeon you know!

[pollyannaish]

LOL. That's how we thought my grandpa was going to go.

My grandmother used to sit next to him in the car and whack his bald head with her fist to keep him awake. Strange thing is...he could sleep through that too.

Used to scare us kids to death.

[antivenom]

the oil crisis we are seeing has a bigger crisis looming...WINTER.

START more domestic drilling and keep the OIL and natural gas here NOW!