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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: TomB

Horrific, but not catastrophic? Looks like the western half of the storm may be drying out a bit, weakening slightly?


121 posted on 08/29/2005 3:37:36 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: TomB

I don't know why Shep acts like things are so great. Seems to me this is a very dangerous situation.


122 posted on 08/29/2005 3:37:52 AM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's son and keep him strong.)
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To: bobdsmith

Storm surge is how much the sea level rises. The winds push the water up against the shore. That rise is the average rise not including waves. Waves break higher.


123 posted on 08/29/2005 3:37:53 AM PDT by DB (©)
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To: spectre
Shep is saying things are better that the winds is down to 140 miles per hour and Steve is putting Grand Isle 105 miles south of New Orleans!

Grand Isle is about 45 miles due south of NO...

Gad! Are these people in their own little world?

Do they ever read a map or realize how stupid they sound?

Of course not...

As God told Howard Beal, "Because you are on television!"

124 posted on 08/29/2005 3:38:13 AM PDT by sonofatpatcher2 (Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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To: dawn53

They were asked to move the statellite truck and I think that had something to do with it.
The Fox anchor made him out to be Marie Antoinette for the move, which was pretty irresponsible. He said there were all kinds of folks at the W - and the employees were WORKING.


125 posted on 08/29/2005 3:38:37 AM PDT by mabelkitty (Lurk forever, but once you post, your newbness shines like a new pair of shoes.)
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To: bobdsmith

DB: The storm surge is a "dome" of water that is pushed ahead by the storm's power and spinning wind force - it's not a "wave" at all - however waves do ride on top of the building surge as it reaches the coast - thus the actual impact is even greater - and more damaging than any wind effects


126 posted on 08/29/2005 3:39:04 AM PDT by VRWCTexan (History has a long memory - but still repeats itself)
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To: bobdsmith

Storm surge is the water that's being pushed by the high winds, and like any wall of water, when it hits the shallower water of the coastline it gets bigger.


127 posted on 08/29/2005 3:39:40 AM PDT by benjaminjjones
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To: spectre

Safety helmets will not stop a 2 by 4 traveling 40 MPH or faster...


128 posted on 08/29/2005 3:40:19 AM PDT by sonofatpatcher2 (Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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To: sonofatpatcher2
Sounds like Shep is trying to do some "damage control" from the hype yesterday. But Katrina is still a bad girl..

sw

129 posted on 08/29/2005 3:40:23 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife (God Save New Orleans)
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To: Miss Marple
I don't know why Shep acts like things are so great. Seems to me this is a very dangerous situation.

That's my point Mabel. It is dangerous. These idiot newspeople are so enamored with numbers, so anytime there is a change they make a big deal out of it. Considering a lot of the storm has been over land for a while, weakening is expected. It still doesn't change the severity. These "jogs" east mean practically nothing at this point. It isn't moving enough to make a difference.

130 posted on 08/29/2005 3:41:03 AM PDT by TomB ("The terrorist wraps himself in the world's grievances to cloak his true motives." - S. Rushdie)
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To: maquiladora

Is there any way in the next few hours something could occur to change that?? I guess I should have checked in here first rather than listen to the news.....


131 posted on 08/29/2005 3:41:20 AM PDT by mabelkitty (Lurk forever, but once you post, your newbness shines like a new pair of shoes.)
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To: sonofatpatcher2
OH..what was I thinking!

sw

132 posted on 08/29/2005 3:41:35 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife (God Save New Orleans)
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To: VRWCTexan

I didn't say it was a wave. I said it wasn't wave.

I said the waves are even higher than the storm surge.


133 posted on 08/29/2005 3:41:57 AM PDT by DB (©)
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To: justa-hairyape

if NO doesn't flood as you (and the forecasters and modelers) are describing (let's hope it does not), what that will tell us is that the odds of a storm doing this, is almost zero. In other words, if this storm does not flood NO, then the odds of any storm having the exact conditions needed to flood NO, is almost zero. All these predictions and models we saw about what the levees could not withstand, will have been shown to be exaggerated.

its too early to tell right now.


134 posted on 08/29/2005 3:42:00 AM PDT by oceanview
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To: Miss Marple
I don't know why Shep acts like things are so great.

Because it's looking less likely the city's going to be completely immersed? If so, sounds like good news to me :)

135 posted on 08/29/2005 3:42:15 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: VRWCTexan; DB

Both you guys explained Surge better than me :)


136 posted on 08/29/2005 3:42:26 AM PDT by benjaminjjones
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To: DB

Power out at the super dome.


137 posted on 08/29/2005 3:42:47 AM PDT by mware (Trollhunter of Note)
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To: oceanview
Power is out at Super Dome. Back up generators not in use YET.

sw

138 posted on 08/29/2005 3:43:37 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife (God Save New Orleans)
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To: spectre

yes, I am sensing alot of that "damage control" you are describing. on TWC too.


139 posted on 08/29/2005 3:43:38 AM PDT by oceanview
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To: spectre
Katrina is still a bad girl..

I think she needs a good spanking :)

140 posted on 08/29/2005 3:43:43 AM PDT by benjaminjjones
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