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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: NCC-1701

Re: "I was there five years ago. A lot of those aricraft are in an enclosed hagar-like building. great looking aircraft. The Drum has been move ashore since then. It's near that building. I hope everything made it through the storm."

I hope so, too...


3,041 posted on 08/29/2005 10:11:51 AM PDT by sonofatpatcher2 (Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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To: Admin Moderator
Time for a new thread???

Semper Curious

3,042 posted on 08/29/2005 10:12:31 AM PDT by Trident/Delta (Chaos, Panic and Disorder.....My work here is done!)
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To: Calpernia
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.

Good Lord, please protect these people and their families.

3,043 posted on 08/29/2005 10:12:38 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: NCC-1701

You can pray.


3,044 posted on 08/29/2005 10:12:43 AM PDT by Marysecretary (Thank you, Lord, for FOUR MORE YEARS!!!)
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To: easonc52

they haven't gotten the worst yet..my in-laws are there in Lamar Co.
I was watching stream wjtv.com out of Jackson and they said hurricane force+ winds should be in the Hattiesburg area in about 1/2 hour..current weather.com shows 50+ winds..gusts to 70..


3,045 posted on 08/29/2005 10:12:54 AM PDT by WoodstockCat (Gitmo? Let them eat Pork!)
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To: Dog

Wish granted! :)


3,046 posted on 08/29/2005 10:13:15 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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WWL: The flooding in Arabi wasn't a levee breach, but overtopping from the Miss. River. 10-12' deep.


3,047 posted on 08/29/2005 10:13:17 AM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Dog

My PRESIDENT DUBYA!!!!!!!


3,048 posted on 08/29/2005 10:13:24 AM PDT by cyborg (I'm having the best day ever.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
I love our president...GOD TRULY BLESS HIM!!
Darn it! He started talking about immigration when the station cut him off! Curious to what he said concern the border crisis!
3,049 posted on 08/29/2005 10:13:36 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Howlin
Am I right in assuming that the worst of the storm hasn't gotten there?

The Oct. 2004 National Geographic had a very good article, "The Big Uneasy", about what could happen to New Orleans if a Catagory Five hit it. Worth a read if you, like me, have stacks of old National Geographics lying around.

One of the big threats was as the eye passed it first pushed water into Lake Pontchartrin and then as the eye moved north the wind over the lake shifted to the south pushing the water over the levees flooding the city.

Hopefully it has weakened enough that at flooding over those levees won't be as bad as was feared. Seems just a little too early to tell.

3,051 posted on 08/29/2005 10:14:00 AM PDT by Chesterbelloc
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To: Spktyr
Re: 'The armor and hull is made of some of the thickest, most homogenous steel ever produced by man. A hurricane isn't going to do anything to it if the hatches are closed. In fact, even a tsunami probably wouldn't do much to the hull.

'On top of that and unlike a building, it *floats*. "What storm surge?"'

Yes, but an unpowered 45,000 ton battleship floating in Mobile Bay at the mercy of the winds would not be a good thing...
3,054 posted on 08/29/2005 10:14:23 AM PDT by sonofatpatcher2 (Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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11:52 a.m.: Evacuees Huddle In Hallways At Chalmette H.S. People who took shelter in Chalmette High School are now huddled in the hallways because the windows have blown out. The building has sustained significant damage. There are reports that the water is 10-feet deep near the high school and is rapidly rising. -- WDSU.com Web Staff
3,055 posted on 08/29/2005 10:14:37 AM PDT by Smogger
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Gov.Barber giving a good recap of what will happen when winds and water allow search and rescue efforts.

"Looters will be treated relentlessly!" ..... YAY for that! Mentions .... "rules of engagement." ...

3,057 posted on 08/29/2005 10:14:51 AM PDT by STARWISE (GITMO IS TOO GOOD FOR THESE TRAITORS -- SEND THEM ALL TO EGYPT FOR QUESTIONING.)
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To: RoseofTexas

Whoa,did you just hear Haley Barbour tell looters he has instructed LE to deal with them 'ruthlessly'? The guy behind and to the right of him smirked. Funny.


3,058 posted on 08/29/2005 10:14:54 AM PDT by Trust but Verify (Get over yourselves!)
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To: BurbankKarl
What We Know: Parish By Parish


What We Know: Parish By Parish

Hurricane Katrina


3,059 posted on 08/29/2005 10:15:09 AM PDT by cgk (We'll have to deal w/ the networks. One way to do that is to drain the swamp they live in - Rumsfeld)
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To: cyborg

I guess if you are going to loot, do it in La. I heard the Winn Dixie was emptied out on CNN.


3,060 posted on 08/29/2005 10:15:10 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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