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

[Dog Gone]

It might be possible to make some aerial inspections of the oil facilities south of the mouth of the Mississippi late today, although no crew can make it out there until tomorrow.

BP's Thunder Horse facility nearly capsized after it was evacuated for Hurricane Dennis. It took a much more direct hit from Katrina. We'll just see.

[NautiNurse]

Jose lasted about 18 hours, IIRC. Popped up as a TS in the Bay of Campeche, then right into Mexico. Non event here.

[BurbankKarl]

wdsu.com

they are showing some out of town reporter getting blown away in 100+ mph winds...to show off for a NY Times reporter

[6ppc]

I just heard from relatives in Leakesville which is east of Hattiesburg. They have a large tree down and their fence is missing, but no major damage.

[Abigail Adams]

AL sending two batallions National Guard to help out MS.

[txhurl]

WDSU still asking for Slidell residents to call in.

Worrisome.... none of the 30K residents has called yet?

[conservative in nyc]

Speaking of gamblers:

Closing coast casinos costs Miss. $500,000 a day in tax revenue

(Jackson, Miss.-AP) August 29, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina has dealt Mississippi's economy a major blow.
The powerful storm silenced slot machines and halted card games on the flashy casinos that dot the Gulf Coast.

The gambling houses are built on barges anchored just off the beach, and Governor Haley Barbour said during a midday briefing that emergency officials have received reports of water reaching the second or third floors of some casinos.

Barbour says there have been no reports of casinos breaking loose from moorings or having any other structural damage. It's unclear how long the gambling houses will remain closed.

Large industries, from shipyards to chemical plants, operate along the Mississippi and Alabama coastlines. Storm damage could delay production for days or weeks.

About 14,000 people work in the dozen casinos along the Mississippi coastline. Each casino has a land-based hotel, and thousands more work in those.

At Treasure Bay, a flashing sign said: "Closed due to Katrina. Katrina Go Away."

http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=3779085&nav=6DJIdsNG

[MamaB]

That will put it between Montgomery and B'ham. Our local station just announced that the airport here might have to close. They were advising everyone who has a flight out to check with the airlines or airport site. They also said we might have tornadoes plus wind and floods. We are on a high hill so that won't bother us but our basement always has water in it when we get a lot of rain. NW AL will get the worse rain, etc. The dividing line is I 65. I am worried about my family in northern MS. The line looked like it was going right over that area. My 101 year old mother is in a nursing home there.

[cgk]

post #3643

Thanks, BurbankKarl. :)

[Abigail Adams]

MSNBC video of NO with cars covered in water up to their roofs!

[Diddle E. Squat]

Wow. But IIRC that was a pretty old bridge.

[Not A Snowbird]

wdsu.com

Their feed is having major problems. I'm looking for something else...

[BurbankKarl]

No...some people here earlier were asking about it too....

[Abigail Adams]

Try the ABC link at the top of the thread.

[BurbankKarl]

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Monday, August 29, 2005



Kenner flooding serious

Monday, 1:45 p.m.

Willliams Boulevard in Kenner is flooded north of I-10 to just before the lake levee, officials said.

Officials said the flooding appears to be more severe than seen on May 8, 1995. However, Lake Pontchartrain did not overtop levees. Throughout Williams and elsewhere in Kenner, businesses, homes and apartments are dealing with flooding and significant roof damage.

Chateau Boulevard is a zig-zag of trees and power lines blocking one of Kenner's main arteries.

[aft_lizard]

Did you catch the fishy's swimming by the Post Office drop box?

[Quick1]

If you've seen Les Miserables, I'm not sure Inspector Javert is a character you want to be quoting.

[MamaB]

Our state is the greatest! I am from MS and live in AL.

[LikeLight]

There's always that disturbing delay in Hurricane damage reports . . . all seems fine, because everyone who's okay checks in and says "okay here" . . . but no news is not good news in the "quiet" areas . . . and the Media is very inept at getting the story out . . .