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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: jayef

Glad to see someone besides me knocks Ole Miss.


2,181 posted on 08/29/2005 8:25:30 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: HuronMan

Strange. I would have thought they would have kept people there for awhile. Maybe times are changing.


2,182 posted on 08/29/2005 8:25:34 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: kinghorse

Fact: most of the people at the superdome are poor. Most are minorities.

The govt. did not try to evacuate them at all. They just shoved them into the Superdome.


2,183 posted on 08/29/2005 8:25:38 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: Trust but Verify

Bush should authorize release from Strategic Reserve only to replace losses caused by this act of God, not as a price-control measure.

It should be easy to calcuate lost production and replace it from the SPR, without significantly affecting the reserve.


2,184 posted on 08/29/2005 8:25:43 AM PDT by RobFromGa (Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran-- what are we waiting for?)
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To: Leapfrog

Plaquemine parish,,Did you ever hear Marcia Ball's great song about the 1927 flood of the Mississippi,,she sang about the water in Plaquemine. But it was the city I do believe, not the parish. The parish of Plaquemine was home to Leander Perez, one of Louisiana's fine mobsters.


2,185 posted on 08/29/2005 8:25:46 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: ohioWfan

:D


2,186 posted on 08/29/2005 8:25:46 AM PDT by cyborg (I'm having the best day ever.)
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To: Lazamataz

..already told her/him/it....seee #2108


2,187 posted on 08/29/2005 8:25:52 AM PDT by Guenevere (God bless our military!...and God bless the President of the United States!)
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To: Peach

"WWWhhhhoooaaaaaaa . . for Fox news, I'm Steven Harrigan"


2,188 posted on 08/29/2005 8:26:03 AM PDT by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
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To: Steve_Seattle
Compared to some of the speculation last night, they WERE lucky.

Considering what could have happened it's beginning to sound like they did get lucky. Still a lot we don't know -- and not all danger has passed. If the worst had happened we wouldn't be hearing any live reports out of New Orleans.

2,189 posted on 08/29/2005 8:26:12 AM PDT by Types_with_Fist (I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
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To: cyborg
His microphone sure does work well.

Sounds like he's in a studio.

2,190 posted on 08/29/2005 8:26:29 AM PDT by battlegearboat
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To: mware

Ah, wrong word. Thanks.


2,191 posted on 08/29/2005 8:26:48 AM PDT by Michael Goldsberry (Galveston)
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To: battlegearboat

Yeah I noticed that too.


2,192 posted on 08/29/2005 8:27:03 AM PDT by cyborg (I'm having the best day ever.)
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To: Leapfrog; All
I would like to point out that during these storms, all kinds of wild rumors about damage and destruction go flying around. At this point, no one in the storm really knows what's going on outside their particular location.

Example - during Hurricane Charley a report went out on the radio that a famous landmark near me, the Bok Singing Tower in Lake Wales, Florida, has been blown down. I even reported that to my folks, who were in Ohio at the time. It turned out later, of course, that the tower, which is made of coquina, was just fine. I personally think some jerk-off decided to try and be funny and yank all our chains by calling in a completely bogus report.

So please view some of these really sensational reports with a fair amount of skepticism - we are not going to have a really accurate assessment of the damage until the storm is really over and people have a chance to go outside and start looking around!

2,193 posted on 08/29/2005 8:27:19 AM PDT by CFC__VRWC ("Anytime a liberal squeals in outrage, an angel gets its wings!" - gidget7)
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To: Guenevere

I did not know he had apologized when I did my 2,055 post...

However, it has been said murder can be explained and forgiven, but exceedingly poor taste is always a death sentence, applied at once without appeal...


2,194 posted on 08/29/2005 8:27:23 AM PDT by sonofatpatcher2 (Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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To: battlegearboat

Maybe he's on the same set where they filmed the moon landings...


2,195 posted on 08/29/2005 8:27:33 AM PDT by oldleft
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To: 1Old Pro
"My sister told me this morning that her 7 year-old asked why almost all the people in the line were black. Of course, it was something we all noticed, but nobody but a child would say it. I saw alot of Blacks, but I also saw alot of Cajun White types."

I guess I just saw a lot of human beings. But that's just me.

2,196 posted on 08/29/2005 8:27:35 AM PDT by RushCrush (What Would Casey Want?)
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To: cyborg
I wonder how many other had the same problem with their cinnamon toast. Lots of people were eating it last night/early morning. Broke the tension some. Others were mad as rip.
2,197 posted on 08/29/2005 8:27:46 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: battlegearboat
Gulfport is getting Pounded right now. Just caught a glimpse of some reporter there. It looks like he is in some wind tone that is blasting him with water.
2,198 posted on 08/29/2005 8:27:47 AM PDT by Sprite518
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To: ChadGore

You know all this Hurrican stuff is just Karl Rove trying to distract from Cindy Shehan.


2,199 posted on 08/29/2005 8:27:48 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (never surrender, this is for the kids)
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To: spectre

"These people were TOLD to evacuate and now they want to be saved ASAP? Amazing."

Let's see -- you have no car or money for gas and there's no public transportation leaving the city any longer. Or, you're too old, frail, or sick to leave. Now exactly how were you suggesting they evacuate? We could use all your novel ideas next time.


2,200 posted on 08/29/2005 8:27:53 AM PDT by Gone GF
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