Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VII

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. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin conceded that as many as 100,000 inner-city residents didn't have the means to leave and an untold number of tourists were stranded by the closing of the airport. At this hour, people are still filing into the Superdome after security screening for weapons and contraband. National Guard have brought in 360,000 MRE (meals ready to eat) to feed the estimated 30,000 storm refugees in the Superdome.

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 Katrina Live Thread, Part VI
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
Katrina Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm 12

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:

Fully-linked version of the live feeds (just in case a few people don't want to first open up WMP to cut-and-paste) -

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 WDSU-TV/DT New Orleans via WESH-TV/DT Orlando - http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38843.asx

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

[mhking]

OK; I really am off to bed. See ya in the morning...

[oceanperch]

Thanks. I didn't know that either.

We have Hot Spring pools in Oregon.

But here on the coast the pools are clorine.

I wonder why sea salt?
Isn't that hard on the filter and pump?

Or do they have a special type of system.

What about bacteria levels in a salt public pool?

[bonfire]

Pot liquor!

It was pretzels and Hershey's kisses, I'll have you know!!

[MplsSteve]

I looked at New Orleans' Convention/Visitors Bureau and there seem to be a number of fine museums in No that could lose some of their collections.

For example, here is one:

http://www.confederatemuseum.com

This museum is south of the French Quarter and appears to have a very valuable and priceless collection of Civil War-related items.

I'd hope that some of the curators for these museums got many of these artifcats out of NO.

[Rebelbase]

IIRC, the levee tops are 18' above the river.

[Sonar5]

No It's not, still 904 from what I read.

[Artemis Webb]

defective equipment?

[HighWheeler]

Looks like jabber-jabber-jabber was the first FR fatality of Hurricane Katrina.

[NautiNurse]

Are under martial law on this thread?

[Admin Moderator]

That is one huge storm.

[small voice in the wilderness]

You ARE the weakest link, bye-bye.

I think jabber jabber,etc. just found the recipe for getting kicked off a thread.;)

[Atlas Sneezed]

Sharing recipes is about finding comfort in a storm.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Yep. There's two mods here now.

Does that make you two another "Mod Squad"?

[RockyTop4GOP]

They're crazy! That's several blocks closer to the Levee and it's an all glass building. Extremely nice, but not the safest building. W staff is really stupid for not closing.

[texaslil]

thanks Army. They usually either stay in port, or outrun the storms, but I got the impression this one sneaked up on them. The ship is the length of four football fields and is somewhat slow. Forgot to ask him how many knots she'd do. Do know they once dumped an entire load of Hummers into the sea that were loaded on deck in order to save the ship. don't know what they do with about a jillion barrels of oil.

[patton]

We hung a sign over the boathouse - "Bring it on, B$TCH"

[newzjunkey]

The WWL stream seems to be dead right now. Could just be too busy. Anyone else?

[rolling_stone]

So when are all the other nations of the world going to help us? We helped them when their countries had tsunamis, earthquakes and hurricanes.

Mexico is sending an extra large supply of illegals to help with cleanup and looting...

[stubernx98]

Just a quick note: I was living in NO in 1965 near Lake Pontchartrain, left for home 3 days before Camile hit. Where I was living was under 20 feet of water, snakes sitting on all the high spots Good luck all.