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

[Flux Capacitor]

I've got what I've got.... let's just say that I don't want this thing to make any left turns.

-Dan

[Howlin]

65 feet?

[nopardons]

Hand dipped chocolate covered pretzels, though a wee bit more fussy to make, aren't hard.

In a double boiler ( or a small put put over a larger pot that has slowly boiling water in it, melt 16 ounces of cooking/baking chocolate and a 1/2 a stick of unsalted butter, turn flame down to low, use a large toothpick or a BBQ skewer through a three ring pretzel and dip into chocolate, raise and let drip a bit. Place coated pretzel on wax paper covered cookie sheet. When the sheet is full, place in the ice-box for about 1/2 an hour. Then peel the pretzels off the paper and store in a container.

[hoosiermama]

Here's one of the port.

http://www.portno.com/webcamnew_out.htm

[Coldwater Creek]

I would bet they did. What were they going to do? Just think about the bombs falling on their heads.

[newzjunkey]

The swarm? If you remember it (being reg'd from Nov 99) I should too. I must've burned out those brain cells. ;)

[Enchante]

I don't see the slightest reason to consider this level of concern a matter of network hype. The greatest concern seems to be coming from the experts who know just what a Cat. 5 hitting a below-sea-level city like New Orleans really means. No one can make perfect predictions in meteorology, but at this point there seems to be no room for doubt that Katrina is going to make landfall within just a few miles of N.O. and that much of coastal LA, MS, and into AL will suffer a tremendous, devastating blow. There's speculation involved in saying just how bad, how many deaths, etc. but no doubts that it will be a huge, terrible hit.

[Howlin]

Heh.

[Maigrey]

I'll be here for a little while longer.

And my thanks to you for helping document and witness this event.

[Nita Nupress]

lol! Shame, shame on you, TD.

[mabelkitty]

Right now??
I'd pay $10 a gallon for gas and never complain if this would just stop, freeze, back-up and die a quick death.

[JustaCowgirl]

'High rises to sway dangerously' according to the NWS. And all windows will likely go. Man, that would be a very BAD place to be. I keep thinking how safe could the Superdome possibly be? I guess people could get up far enough to be above the water, but it would be incredibly scary.

[tiredoflaundry]

Rule #1 of proper behavior during disasters gleaned from disaster movies: Never go to the ballroom!

That is just awful, funny, but awful! ;-)

[oceanperch]

LOL

I have the pool but don't think I want to swim with the dolphins because I have seen their tank at the local Aquarium. Yuk.

And this is the Aqurium that was Keiko's last home State of the Art.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Please tell me that the interstate isn't still jammed.

[YaYa123]

FOXNews just interviewed the Salvation Army and the guy said they have many mobile kitchens ready to roll to New Orleans. They will start feeding people as quickly as they can get into the area. (I think he said 50 kitchens)

He said Salvation Army units from all the southern states will be on the way to help with Katrina. God bless the Salvation Army.

You can donate here: http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/

[NautiNurse]

Tulane Hospital moved the Emergency Department up to the 3rd floor of the hospital. Hospital is at full capacity with 163 patients. In the past hour or so--three new ED patients brought in from the SuperDome.

[Coldwater Creek]

Thank you!!!!!!

[adam_az]

On ther upside, this will eliminate a good deal of the nutria population...

That said, I hope the city and it's residents come out of this safely.