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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: dirtboy

Reports of massive flooding in Mississippi and Alabama.

Not many freeper reports coming in from those areas? Seems like everyone is talking about New Orleans. These other areas are getting hit very hard.


2,401 posted on 08/29/2005 8:50:31 AM PDT by silentknight
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To: NautiNurse
Hopefully, the residents of the Retirement Home were evacuated to a safe location prior to the storm.

No, they weren't. See my post 2,378. The home's mgr. was bragging about the ability of this home to withstand such weather. They were even saying that meals would be served on schedule (business-as-usual).

2,402 posted on 08/29/2005 8:50:38 AM PDT by Colofornian
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To: maggief

Wish someone would post that pic and caps over at du.


2,403 posted on 08/29/2005 8:50:38 AM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (Pray Daily For Our Troops and President Bush)
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To: Smogger

try scrolling up to the top of this thread and click on the link "click here to read article", it will take you to all the links pertaining to Katrina, including streams.


2,404 posted on 08/29/2005 8:50:47 AM PDT by lifacs
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To: WestCoastGal
He said he is going to do specials for FOX and would not be anchoring everyday

I hope it is because that is what he wants to be doing. I think he is very good and will miss him.

2,405 posted on 08/29/2005 8:50:51 AM PDT by Bahbah (Praying for all in Katrina's path, from St. Louis)
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To: angelwings49
Sounds like the Tony Snow deal...hiring the liberal loon 'Chris Wallace' really made me mad...

It appears one by one their hiring liberals replacing our conservative favorites...

2,406 posted on 08/29/2005 8:51:12 AM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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To: TheBigB

ABC affiliate is saying no emergency services at this time as the storm is still raging. God help those people on their roofs or in their attics!


2,407 posted on 08/29/2005 8:51:12 AM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: NautiNurse
I swear I'm sticking to my guns on my Cantore Theory of Catastrophic Weather:

"If Jim Cantore does a weather report from anywhere in your vicinity, get out your Rosary, because you're screwed."

I'll be keeping an eye out for him in my area this winter, that's for sure.

You should get some rest -- you've done an ass-kicking job, but you must be all done in!

2,408 posted on 08/29/2005 8:51:20 AM PDT by Malacoda (*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ! *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*)
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To: NautiNurse
Special thanks are extended to the United States Air Force Reserve hurricane hunter crews stationed at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi Mississippi...who have been flying continuous missions through Katrina even as their families and homes are being seriously impacted by this hurricane.

Bless each and everyone, and their families, too!

2,409 posted on 08/29/2005 8:51:21 AM PDT by GummyIII (If you have the ability, it's your responsibility." Marine Sgt. John Place, Silver Star recipient)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
You are the one who is overhyping and exaggerating, in this case as to how it was reported.

Did you watch the news yesterday?

2,410 posted on 08/29/2005 8:51:23 AM PDT by jveritas (The Axis of Defeatism: Left wing liberals, Buchananites, and third party voters.)
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To: ChadGore

Great New Orleans sense of humor there.


2,411 posted on 08/29/2005 8:51:31 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: kinghorse

You are free to leave here anytime you want.


2,412 posted on 08/29/2005 8:51:43 AM PDT by Trust but Verify (Get over yourselves!)
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To: bwteim

They didn't evacuate or bring a pick axe. Very sad.


2,413 posted on 08/29/2005 8:51:55 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: silentknight

what building collaped in N.O.?


2,414 posted on 08/29/2005 8:51:55 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: Trust but Verify
But if we lose refining capacity, what would be the point? It's still crude oil.

Oh, but it's symbolic, and that's what counts! </sarc>

2,415 posted on 08/29/2005 8:51:58 AM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: All
Catch this VISIBLE SATELLITE LOOP while you can.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/float-vis-loop.html

2,416 posted on 08/29/2005 8:51:58 AM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: 1Old Pro

I'm done with you!


2,417 posted on 08/29/2005 8:51:59 AM PDT by jayef
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To: FeliciaCat; al baby

Can y'all PLEASE take it to another thread - start a joke/chat thread if you want? There's gonna be a flood of news coming out over the next few hours and we need to keep the signal-to-noise ratio up on this thread.


2,418 posted on 08/29/2005 8:52:02 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: Gondring
IF New Orleans were sinking due to building weight, ONLY the heaviest buildings would be going down: The WHOLE AREA is lowering (a very little bit due to ground water pumping - that's what began submerging parts of Baytown TX back in the early 70's) but NOT ENOUGH water is pumped out to cause the whole rea to keep going down.

Bldg foundations ONLY spread the load out in the immediate area of the building (most of which is spreadout BETWEEN the pilings, NOT even into adjacent bldg's, (much less into adjacent city blocks!).

More important, downtown NO is a very, very small area: less than 4 square miles. Most of which is 2-4 story buildings! (Very light weight, geologically speaking. There are only a few high-rises, and something like the Long Bridge weighs more than the buildings.)

2,419 posted on 08/29/2005 8:52:05 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (-I contribute to FR monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS supports Hillary's Secular Sexual Socialism every day.)
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To: chudogg
How about another push for ANWR?

My understanding is that ANWR drilling is coming in the Budget bill, and it cannot be filibustered there.

2,420 posted on 08/29/2005 8:52:06 AM PDT by RobFromGa (Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran-- what are we waiting for?)
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