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Posted on 08/29/2005 2:47:45 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Category 4 Hurricane Katrina is approaching landfall in Eastern Louisiana. At 4:00AM EDT the storm's center was about 90 miles south of New Orleans.
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
Lake Ponchartrain Real Time Water Level
Images:
New Orleans/Baton Rouge Experimental Radar Subject to delays and outages - and well worth the wait
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:
Cut and Paste:
http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=beloint_khou&props=livenoad
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
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VII
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
| 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 |
Fox reporting moving refugees back under overhangs, roof leaking...
The good news, so far, is that the storm picked up speed going north. That will reduce the winds on the west side of the hurricane which will help NO greatly.
WAPT-TV news.
Brian Williams is live (phone) in the dome on MSNBC
LOL! Our local radio host just said that he thinks Steve has a death wish. He's imitating him with, "Oh, look a piece of roof just blew past me."
We have had a replacement host named Leslie ? on last week who thinks Cindy Sheehan is great. He says he asked the program director if they could send Leslie down to NO.
You've got it. I've been praying all night.
SO basically now the Superdome looks like . . . a super tub?
Oops, Brian says "another small section just lifted up"..
""If the roof comes off, I think they are in big trouble. The whole structure will be compromised and
the rest of the interior will likely sustain catastrophic damage.""
"I rather doubt it. It doesn't look like the roof is in any way structurally supporting the rest of the building."
Per discussion and technical data in earlier thread, roof and walls are integral to each other.
Still, it important to note that roof panels are not the same as roof trusses/supports, which do not appear to have been affected yet.
Hurricanes take roofs frequently, and while people get wet, they can and have survived.
Camille was Cat 5 when she hit land with wind gusts up to 200 mph. Not that Katrina isn't bad, but not Camille, at least I pray not.
My grandmother's house was crushed into matchsticks when a big gas tank was blown off a ship and rolled over it during Camille, and she was in D'Iberville, north of the Back Bay!
At least her house was. She was in Baton Rouge, and never moved back.
Pictures up on MSNBC now
It won't be long before panic sets in. God Help them.
Thanks.
... not that much debris falling ... reporters wondering what it looks like from the outside ... they are standing in the tunnel where the Saints come out onto the field ... they placed the new roof over the old roof ... from sounds that we heard was that part of new roof was peeling off, slamming the old roof ... after a while it would cause some damage ... that is their theory ... new latex covering coming off only thing that would explain the sound they heard ...
Yikes....isn't the room made of concrete?
The domes roof isn't
Sorry, had to take a client call and actually do some work.
I installed ReloadEvery and installed it in Firefox.
Now I guess I'll have to learn how to use Firefox.
I want to be able to set the time on the thing. And how 'bout only making it run on one page or instance of Firefox.
No. Don't wanna, and you can't make me. =P
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