Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII

NOAA - NHC ^ | 29 August 2005 | NOAA - NHC

[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

[deport]

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

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We don't have enough info to know the answer, but my guess is this is a rig that was moored along the water way and broke its moorings not an operational rig. They normally moor these rigs when not in use along water ways. If it's a working platform then that is something else. Most platforms have been shut in thus the wells have been turned off a few days ago and the workers evacuated...

Just guesses at this stage.

[b4its2late]

Levee breach. 8 feet of water in the 9th ward expected.

[RushCrush]

I completely agree with you. She is scum. I knew it before but she confirmed it this weekend.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

The Sugar Bowl is no more...now it's classrooms at Tulane University or something...

[OXENinFLA]

Astronomy Picture of the Day: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico

[Lazamataz]

I hope Central Grocery survives. Best muffies in the world.

What a time to be thinking about sex.

[libtoken]

Any residual gunk still in the rig, maybe. Unknown if this was an active rig or one simply parked awaiting use.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Brian Williams just gave a report from inside the Superdome. It was a pretty calm report, no mention of the roof "shredding".

[Hand em their arse]

~~~~~~~~~~~~(whispering) 4 months later~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "YETH, WICK AND KIEWEN... THITH ITHZ THTEW HAWWIGAN IN THIWADELTHIA, WEPAWTING THRUM THE BWITHZARD OTH TWO THOUZAN THITH

[mware]

shep just on the tony snow show.

[fhlh]

CNN reporting NOLA has already seen the worst of Katrina...

[LizardQueen]

I've heard of 2 so far, on this thread - French Quarter and one on Tennessee street. Also heard, on another board, of one on northwest side being overtopped. I'm cubicle bound so can't get to live news other than here at this time.

LQ

[ohioWfan]

Continued fervent prayers for the safety of the people in the path of this storm!

[angkor]

How do you get that Dopplar imagery to overlay in Google Earth? I've gone through all the layer options, can't find anything for weather.

[Frank_Discussion]

"And you think this storm has been hyped?"

I've been thinking that Katrina has made it easy on the newsreaders, letting them give their hyperbole generators a rest. I don't think they comprehend what this big lady is doing right now.

[WestCoastGal]

Boats into buildings in Gulfport!

Fox

[Sonar5]

Wow. Astounding pic.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

BTW, Ninth Ward is NOT near the French Quarter, in case people are confusing the two areas...

[spectre]

Steve, the Beau Rivage is a BEAUTIFUL Casino/Hotel in Biloxi, MS.

I wish someone could post a picture of it :( I can't :(