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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: Sonar5

Fox needs to know that most likely a majority of their viewers want his butt inside.


1,481 posted on 08/29/2005 7:14:25 AM PDT by RushCrush (What Would Casey Want?)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
I agree...the worst to come will be in the form of flooding in NOLA...winds will start to fall-back within the hour.....Are there any densely populated areas to the NE of NOLA (25-35 miles NE)?

.....That area is taking this storm head on....I would not be surprised to see catastrophic damage in this region...
1,482 posted on 08/29/2005 7:14:34 AM PDT by PigRigger (Send donations to http://www.AdoptAPlatoon.org)
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To: Graymatter

Was this just a real report?

GLEN BECK just said part of the roof of the SUPER DOME just broke off.


1,483 posted on 08/29/2005 7:14:39 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: cajungirl
Am I nuts or is this nuts?

Yes ;)

1,484 posted on 08/29/2005 7:14:45 AM PDT by SlowBoat407 (A living affront to Islam since 1959)
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To: spectre

Tough boogers. He shouldn't have been out there in the first place.


1,485 posted on 08/29/2005 7:14:46 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Peach

Steve sounds like a five year old playing in a big mud puddle. WHOA........


1,486 posted on 08/29/2005 7:14:51 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: bored at work

Finally Harrigan has had enough!!


1,487 posted on 08/29/2005 7:14:51 AM PDT by WestCoastGal (Thank you JR for pulling this limping team across the finish in 9th place)
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To: Sonar5

Well, Harrigan almost got clobbered by a roof, so he is heading out. Duhhh....!


1,488 posted on 08/29/2005 7:14:52 AM PDT by Sonar5 (60+ Million have Spoken Clearly - "We Want Our Country Back")
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To: cajungirl

NOLA Airport gusts at 85MPH.


1,489 posted on 08/29/2005 7:14:59 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: RushCrush

"Woah-oha! I'm getting out of here!" -- Steve Harrigan, idiot.


1,490 posted on 08/29/2005 7:15:00 AM PDT by filbert ((Kansas City)--More filbert at http://www.medary.com)
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To: dirtboy

Harrigan just hauled a$$ away from where he was. A piece of roof landed right next to him. He yelled and said, "I'm getting out of here."


1,492 posted on 08/29/2005 7:15:05 AM PDT by GOPyouth (De Oppresso Liber! The Tyrant is captured!)
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To: libtoken

Would this mean that there is oil pumping into the water where the oil rig used to be? Just wondering?


1,493 posted on 08/29/2005 7:15:06 AM PDT by southlake_hoosier (.... One Nation, Under God.......)
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To: kenth

My mom remembers seeing galvanizing slice off someone's head in a really bad storm. He apparently just had a close call.


1,494 posted on 08/29/2005 7:15:14 AM PDT by cyborg (I'm having the best day ever.)
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To: PigRigger
Trust me, NOLA DID dodge a MOAB; the destruction that would have ensued if they were to the east of the eye would have been far greater...that does not mean that NOLA will not see significant damage, just that it could be a whole lot worse

To the east of the eye would have produced the worse wind damage. To the west of the eye would have produced the worse flood damage.

1,495 posted on 08/29/2005 7:15:14 AM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: cyborg

I heard Harrigan hollering in the other room. Did he dodge some more debris?


1,496 posted on 08/29/2005 7:15:26 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: spectre
I want to see Cantore! He's probably got a jet ski in the Beau rivage..not kidding either.

He was just on via phone. He relocated to a government retirement home a half-mile inland, and reported that the parking lot there was flooded.

Third landfall appears to be happening at the Louisiana/Mississippi state line.

1,497 posted on 08/29/2005 7:15:27 AM PDT by steveegg (Real torture is taking a ride with Sen Ted "Swimmer" Kennedy in a 1968 Oldsmobile off a short bridge)
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To: silentknight

Last night Fox had some guy with a wind meter standing out in winds that appeared to be at least 40-45 mph, and he was holding up the meter and saying the wind was only 13 mph. He seemed like an idiot.


1,498 posted on 08/29/2005 7:15:29 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: jasoncann
A LEVEE BREACH OCCURRED ALONG THE INDUSTRIAL CANAL AT TENNESSE STREET. 3 TO 8 FEET OF WATER IS EXPECTED DUE TO THE BREACH...LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ARABI AND 9TH WARD OF NEW ORLEANS.

It appears that this is actually a separate section of the city to the east/southeast of the majority of New Orleans, in a separate levee system, so it shouldn't cause flooding in the central city.

1,499 posted on 08/29/2005 7:15:32 AM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: AppyPappy
The superdome roof should fall apart faster since it has already been breached. Not good.
1,500 posted on 08/29/2005 7:15:32 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne (The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
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