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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI
NOAA - NHC ^ | 28 August 2005 | NOAA - NHC

Posted on 08/28/2005 2:38:16 PM PDT by 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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: hurricane; hurricanekatrina; katrina; livehurricanekatrina; tropical
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

You can have him....... He is a total fake.


2,301 posted on 08/28/2005 6:51:22 PM PDT by Capt_Hank (btu's...kcal's...to kJ's, but my activation energy is still high.)
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To: tbone56
Al Jeezera TV tomorrow:

Allah punishes the infidels.

No doubt on that one...

2,302 posted on 08/28/2005 6:51:25 PM PDT by easonc52
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To: kenth

Thank you.


2,303 posted on 08/28/2005 6:51:27 PM PDT by Types_with_Fist (I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
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To: solitas
God Bless Homer & Jethro...

Believe it or not, I actually have that LP! I used to listen to that song all the time in Illinois when I was about five years old. ;)

2,304 posted on 08/28/2005 6:51:35 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("Violence never settles anything." Genghis Khan, 1162-1227)
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To: Diddle E. Squat

Ok, I was 21 hours off. That screws the Mayor of New Orleans even worse.


2,305 posted on 08/28/2005 6:51:55 PM PDT by Rebelbase ("Run Hillary Run" bumper stickers. Liberals place on rear bumper, conservatives put on front bumper)
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To: flutters
I completely agree. I don't understand how they can get 70,000+ people into a game in a few short hours, but it's taking all darn day to get +/- 30,000 people in during a catastrophic hurricane.
I haven't seen people going to a game carrying bedding, food, clothing and all kinds of stuff(according to the Chief of Police) to a game.  All these people and their stuff have to be checked individually, takes time.  If anything, they should have opened it up earlier just like the evacuation should have started earlier!

2,306 posted on 08/28/2005 6:52:04 PM PDT by united1000
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To: advance_copy
Is God mad at New Orleans?

It is a city known for Voodoo, partying in the French Quarter/Bourbon Street (and Fat City), as well as strip joints...

Would you be mad at stuff like that, especially partying either on the Sabbath (Jewish day of rest), or partying early into the Lord's Day (the Remembrance of Easter Sunday by Christians -- their day of rest and day for remembering the day when Jesus rose from the Dead).

I don't think that Bourbon Street would fit into a Bible Belt area. Dallas (TX) has parts of the city that are dry from its Bible belt heritage...

2,307 posted on 08/28/2005 6:52:16 PM PDT by topher (God bless and protect our troops and service personnel around the world)
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To: RightWhale
"If this turns out to wipe out Old NO, it would be similar in devastation to one of those Arab nukes. Seems like nobody is talking about this storm bringing the country to its knees. Old NO will be rebuilt on higher ground and we can do it without working up a sweat. Same, I think, for an Arab nuke."

Yeah, but with a hurricane there is the chance to evacuate. A nuke (Arab or otherwise) would snuff out 1,000,000+ people in milliseconds.
2,308 posted on 08/28/2005 6:52:17 PM PDT by Windcatcher (Earth to libs: MARXISM DOESN'T SELL HERE. Try somewhere else.)
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To: Txsleuth

I think she was Miss America.


2,309 posted on 08/28/2005 6:52:34 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: Types_with_Fist
I just remembered the haunted one: The Myrtles.

Has anyone thought about James Carville and his Carville, Louisiana Leprosy refuge? That's close to NO, right?

2,310 posted on 08/28/2005 6:52:41 PM PDT by small voice in the wilderness (Behold the Riderless Pony. Bringing doom and destruction on a smaller scale.)
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To: topher

Regarding BOUY 42001, they just put up a Note on it:

IN RED:

Conditions at 42001 as of
(4:50 pm PDT)
2350 GMT on 08/28/2005:
Note: This report is more than two hours old

Could be it's already lost.

42001
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=42001&unit=E&tz=PST


2,311 posted on 08/28/2005 6:53:01 PM PDT by Sonar5 (60+ Million have Spoken Clearly - "We Want Our Country Back")
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To: hole_n_one

Dang it has been at least 5 hours that you have been griping about Janice Dean...if she offends you so much, why haven't you changed that channel? huh?

I am sick of your complaining about her---and all of the other people on Fox. There are two other cable channels, go visit them for a while, please!


2,312 posted on 08/28/2005 6:53:13 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Arlington Texas --- Next home of the Dallas Cowboys...going more broke every second.)
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To: nhoward14
I wonder if Janice Dean has family that refused to leave or she is romantically involved with somebody reporting or working in the storm area.

I know what people say about him - but Shep Smith is there. She was dong really well up until he started reporting from the French Quarter. Also she did comment about living near there for soem time.

2,313 posted on 08/28/2005 6:53:15 PM PDT by Gabz (USSG Warning: portable sewing machines are known to cause broken ankles)
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To: Jedidah

bumb


2,314 posted on 08/28/2005 6:53:22 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: topher

Please don't talk about this as some kind of an attack by God and justify the thinking.


2,315 posted on 08/28/2005 6:53:24 PM PDT by RDTF
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To: cgk

360K MREs sounds more like it. That's 6 days worth at two meals a day.


2,316 posted on 08/28/2005 6:53:54 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
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To: the Deejay
I know..:)

I'm going to TRY and get some sleep and be back VERY early in the AM.

Prayers for all the people in New Orleans who don't have safe harbour tonight..

sw

2,317 posted on 08/28/2005 6:53:57 PM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife (God Save New Orleans)
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To: Diddle E. Squat

that sounds about right. 6 or 7 miles to the west of NO is not going to be enough I don't think. but steve lyons was just on TWC, its still got a westerly component to it, slicing towards that 90.0 line of longitude.


2,318 posted on 08/28/2005 6:54:02 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: Beelzebubba

Glad you shared your replendent memories. You never mentioned once a simple bowl of red beans and rice.

Spare me your wistful sophistry of those memories clad in crystal.


2,319 posted on 08/28/2005 6:54:04 PM PDT by Hilltop
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To: spectre
FYI we're not supposed to post that nonsense.. BUT, I don't mean to offend you.

You're right, of course... and no offense taken. Just a little overwhelmed by the magnitude of this immense disaster.
2,320 posted on 08/28/2005 6:54:11 PM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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