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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII
NOAA - NHC ^ | 29 August 2005 | NOAA - NHC

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

Wind Speed Data

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 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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: hurricane; hurricanekatrina; katrina; livehurricanekatrina; tropical; weather
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To: stlnative

that sure does not look like 1/ 12 of the roof

is'nt there a law against shouting "FIRE" in a theater?


1,161 posted on 08/29/2005 6:38:21 AM PDT by spanalot
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To: Leapfrog
FOX reporting a hotel collapse in Harvey, LA

Across the river from N.O. ?

1,162 posted on 08/29/2005 6:38:24 AM PDT by 11th_VA (And so it was in the days of Noah ...)
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To: gopwinsin04

Not yet.


1,163 posted on 08/29/2005 6:38:33 AM PDT by DB (©)
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To: eyespysomething
Re: I'm watching the live feed from the MSNBC website

Got a link ?

1,164 posted on 08/29/2005 6:38:35 AM PDT by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

TV..Two sources..upper floor windows.


1,165 posted on 08/29/2005 6:38:43 AM PDT by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: SE Mom

see post 1063 for source


1,166 posted on 08/29/2005 6:38:43 AM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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To: Right_in_Virginia

Thank God for that! NO is still inside the center but now it looks like it is going to be in the north west part of the storm not in the north east part. That is a little bit better.


1,167 posted on 08/29/2005 6:38:44 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Gondring

The LSU engineer who studied and modeled the worst case scenarios said that a Cat 5 passing within 30 miles of the city would cause the catastrophic overtopping and filling of the bowl. Of course that is just a theoretical estimate and an imprecise figure. The storm has weakened just enough and is just far enough to the east as to be right on the edge of that predicted 'line of worst case'. So there is still some hope, but it is very dicey.


1,168 posted on 08/29/2005 6:38:45 AM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Latest BOUY report 42040

Wave Height 51.
http://www.nlmoc.navy.mil/cgi-bin/buoy/buoy.cgi?8042040


1,169 posted on 08/29/2005 6:39:10 AM PDT by Sonar5 (60+ Million have Spoken Clearly - "We Want Our Country Back")
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To: 11th_VA
Across the river from N.O. ?

Yes.

1,170 posted on 08/29/2005 6:39:33 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: jeffers

Mary Landrieu press conference in a preppy blue tied sweater! (barf alert)


1,171 posted on 08/29/2005 6:39:33 AM PDT by gopwinsin04 (Prayers up for the Gulf Coast)
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To: watsonfellow

Thank you.


1,172 posted on 08/29/2005 6:39:34 AM PDT by U S Army EOD (WHEN JANE FONDA STARTS HER TOUR, LET ME KNOW WHERE SHE IS)
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To: 11th_VA

Yep, Harvey is on the West Bank.


1,173 posted on 08/29/2005 6:39:39 AM PDT by hc87
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To: stlnative; Nita Nupress; All

Husband (MIT trained architect) is optimoistic about the roof holding structurally as long as the metal doesn't get blown off. The wind can take off the liner and the polystyrene, but roof won't go as long as the steel stays intact.

He is hoping there is only a 5% chance that the roof will go, but says it depends on how everything is attached. Please pray he is right, and wait for the true experts to post, the structural engineers!


1,174 posted on 08/29/2005 6:39:42 AM PDT by jacquej
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To: 11th_VA

Yes, Harvey is right across the Mississippi River from New Orleans.


1,175 posted on 08/29/2005 6:40:00 AM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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To: 11th_VA

Yeah .. that's what they said.. also a woman trapped in an attic in her apartment house.


1,176 posted on 08/29/2005 6:40:06 AM PDT by pamlet
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To: stlnative

You know once the integrity of the roof is broken, it provides a way for more air gust to remove more of the roof.


1,177 posted on 08/29/2005 6:40:15 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: Sonar5

51 what? Inches? Feet?


1,178 posted on 08/29/2005 6:40:23 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
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To: 11th_VA
" Across the river from N.O. ?"

Yes.

Map.

1,179 posted on 08/29/2005 6:40:32 AM PDT by Michael Goldsberry (Galveston)
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