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

[cherry]

someone at an earlier hurricaine had posted the site for a web cam in downtonw NO....can someone post that again?.....sorry, I just got on and only got partially thru the whole thread.....

[mhking]

We just have better toys.

Nudge-nudge-nod-nod-wink-wink-say no more; say no more!

[Ellesu]

Tornado Warning Orleans Parish

[pax_et_bonum]

Whew...I thought the Admin Mod closed the thread because I posted the Red Beans and Rice recipe!

Uh oh! I just posted a fresh creamed corn recipe!

[newzjunkey]

What are these red beans? Are they kidney beans? I saw an add on WWL's stream but wasn't paying attention.

[benjaminjjones]

Hey, I anyone seen FNC Shep lately? Sorry if I missed an update.

[mhking]

No you got them all; you missed a line break at the last, but no worries.

[bonfire]

IT'S A JOKE!! It's what the libs ALWAYS say. Sarcasm. Get it??

[blam]

"You're doing a fine job with this mess, ma'am !" "Thanks"

I'll second that. Fantastic job.

[milford421]

"(sigh) I do have a big God, though. That helps."

HE is the only one who can help.

[oceanview]

that last report I heard from Lyons on TWC. the best "hope" (if you can call it that) would be for this thing to ride up the 90.0 longitude line so the eye crosses the city and the lake. the wind effects would be lower then taking any part of the eye wall. the flooding would still be an issue, but there isn't much left to hang your hat on as far as "hope" goes. This was the gist I got from what Lyons was saying.

see you all early tomorrow morning.

[paulat]

Okay...now you've done it!!!! You must re-post the recipe!!!

Prayers to NO from Seattle!!!

[Black Tooth]

C'mon guys lets keep this a hurricane thread

I couldn't agree more. Some of these posts are distracting and annoying. I mean passing recipe's?

[Unknown Freeper]

Nurse, thank you for keeping this series of threads going.

[samiam1972]

Sorry!

[pollyg107]

I need to go to bed, too. All of the schools around here are closed tomorrow and I don't know whether I should close my office.

[RummyChick]

talking about how the one guy..Walter M. said the french quarter could be gone and 50k dead.

[Trident/Delta]

Well, if you venture into the cesspool that is DU, you will find that they blame this all on Kyoto, and the Bush rejection.....

Semper Fi

[Txsleuth]

I second that suggestion!!!