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

[Trident/Delta]

Are you kidding??? This is hugh and series! Sidebar has her beeber set to stune!

Semper Articulate

[U S Army EOD]

The NO mayor was just on a few minutes ago and they are expecting the levees to break.

[Flux Capacitor]

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

That would be poetic.... a mass wipeout by hurricane of hordes of the critters who for years have been chewing away at the coastline that's supposed to be a buffer against hurricanes.

It's a lot better than being told by the state government to eat them.

-Dan

[mabelkitty]

Going to bed now.
See you tomorrow.

[Gabz]

Yes, the weather on lower DelMarVa can be miserable in summer........and now I'm further south on the Penninsula in VA.....and much closer to the water. Nor'easters sure ain't much fun :)

[patton]

Yes, we hung that sign - during ISABEL! LOL.

I am sure patriotic Americans are doing similer silly things today - I pray for them.

Now, If I could only catch up with this thread! LOL.

[newzjunkey]

Not entirely true. "Worst possible outcome for the city" would be a slight move west which would surely destroy the levies. East would've been ideal but directly passing over is second best. Three residents from a nursing home died on the bus ride during the evaculation.

[CFC__VRWC]

After hurricane Hugo, the most directly helpful groups were the fire departments and church groups, with food aid and chainsaws.

Same here last year, after Charley. Though the church groups also brought bottled water and ice. The Fire Dept. set up a comfort station, where people could come and take showers as well.

[eldoradude]

Here's another recipe to go with the pretzels...

Get a 1 qt. mason jar and fill with black cherries. Add Korbel brandy until the jar is full to the top. Cap it and let it sit in a dark place for two or three months. Spoon out a nice glass of brandy (it's okay to eat the cherries too) and sip after each pretzel. Very nice...

[Howlin]

Night.....see you early, I hope!

[janetjanet998]

only 10,000 in the superdome now? that means many still in the city outside of it....they were expecting alot more i think

[Arizona Carolyn]

I suppose this is a stupid question, but if 100,000 people have no mode of transportation.... why didn't they load them all on river boats yesterday and send them North up the Mississippi out of the path of the storm????

[NautiNurse]

Only 10,000 in the Dome? Thought is was 30K.

[Cboldt]

Is there a point where authorities shut off the freeways out of NO thinking that if you haven't left yet, it's probably too late?

Shutting off freeways involves the issue of physically denying access. Yes, it is done. But the "where" is a complex decision.

[ChEng]

Well said, hope the Navy can move relief ships, and or chartered cruise ships into New Orleans to sustain the city...

[Abigail Adams]

The national guard guy said earlier on the local station that there were 30,000. So who knows? (I had also heard earlier that there were 10,000 in line waiting outside. No one waiting outside now.)

[Sonar5]

FNC said 20,000 are in the dome, live guy there now.

[Miztiki]

There are still several hours left before landfall. I hope and pray that this witch Katrina alters her course in a way that there is ultimately less damage. I also hope and pray that she loses strength.

I don't want to see a doomsday scenario in NO. It's been neat to speculate and fret about it over the years, but I don't actually want it to happen. This hurricane scares me.