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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: bwteim

How come it's a lot of the same places that flooded back in 65 that are flooding now?


2,461 posted on 08/29/2005 8:57:46 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: maggief

But...but...I thought the President was slacking off on vacation.


2,462 posted on 08/29/2005 8:57:50 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: sissyjane

Superdome Roof Ripped As Katrina Slams New Orleans

Top Sustained Winds At 125 MPH

UPDATED: 10:12 am CDT August 29, 2005

The thousands of people who took shelter in the New Orleans Superdome couldn't completely escape the wrath of Hurricane Katrina.


2,463 posted on 08/29/2005 8:57:52 AM PDT by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
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To: bobdsmith

I'd love to have cable, Bob. You buying? :)


2,464 posted on 08/29/2005 8:58:01 AM PDT by RoseyT
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To: SunnySide

"
That's old masonry that fell, and the high rise behind it is still standing and wearing its skin.

Brick walls fail because mortar has no tensile strength.

.......

especially when they are weathered and over 50 to 100 year old brick buildings. Many of these historical
buildings most likely haven't been tuck pointed(re-mortarted) over the years, left with gaps through the
brick walls.
"

I agree, a lot of those bricks were held together by nothing more than habit. Looks like NO is holding their own right now, but the surge reports NE of there are beginning to stack up.

Besides those issues, some of that surge had to make it into Lake P. with second landfall occuring south of Pearlington. Right now I'm hoping the drought absorbed most of that portion of it.


2,465 posted on 08/29/2005 8:58:24 AM PDT by jeffers
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To: maggief

More than just 1/12 missing.


2,466 posted on 08/29/2005 8:58:38 AM PDT by CedarDave (VietNam Vet Remembers -- This Time SUPPORT the Troops, COMPLETE the Mission)
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To: SE Mom

google earth has some fairly old pics, look at an area you know well that has had a large construction project and check how completed it is in the pic....


2,467 posted on 08/29/2005 8:58:39 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: dirtboy

This is a real danger, often spoken of. People think it's calm so they venture out and get hit with another round.


2,468 posted on 08/29/2005 8:58:46 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: Lazamataz
What happened, Laz? I go to sleep and next thing I know one of the great FReepers is threatening to quit!
2,469 posted on 08/29/2005 8:58:49 AM PDT by colorado tanker (The People Have Spoken)
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To: spycatcher

Thank The Lord this didn't happen. The Lord was protecting the poor among us.


2,470 posted on 08/29/2005 8:58:55 AM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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To: Calpernia

Thanks :)


2,471 posted on 08/29/2005 8:58:55 AM PDT by WestCoastGal (Thank you JR for pulling this limping team across the finish in 9th place)
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To: rwfromkansas

They got food and shelter when they needed it. What more do you want?


2,472 posted on 08/29/2005 8:59:04 AM PDT by ctdonath2
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Maybe because the land hasn't gotten any higher since 1965??


2,473 posted on 08/29/2005 8:59:08 AM PDT by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: Guenevere; Dog Gone; All
A nap would be nice--but I have a prior committment this afternoon RighTalk - The Inquisition
2,474 posted on 08/29/2005 8:59:26 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: maggief

Great pics. Keep em coming.


2,475 posted on 08/29/2005 8:59:30 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Islam is merely Nazism without the snappy fashion sense.)
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To: ChadGore

That would be the fabric roof/sealer that got ripped off. The steel roof is still just fine except for a few missing panels and inspection ports.

From what I've read, none of this was unexpected. The engineers on scene aren't worried about it.


2,476 posted on 08/29/2005 8:59:37 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: silentknight

USS Alabama appears to have left port.


2,477 posted on 08/29/2005 8:59:38 AM PDT by HuronMan
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To: NautiNurse
The inland wind damage from this storm will be substantial.

And the system is supposed to run into a front tomorrow, which means torrential rains.

2,478 posted on 08/29/2005 8:59:50 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: sissyjane

I'm sure Jim has a few more episodes for his "Storm Stories" series.


2,479 posted on 08/29/2005 8:59:51 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: AGreatPer

If you know what an arch is, dead center of that roof is a keystone.


2,480 posted on 08/29/2005 9:00:01 AM PDT by jeffers
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