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

[Quick1]

Actually, I think the thing that would creep me out is fire ants. They make a little ball out of their colony, and it FLOATS! Then, as soon as they touch dry land, they swarm upon it. I would hate to be someone hanging onto a telephone pole or something, and a colony of fire ants happens upon it. Ugh.

[Not A Snowbird]

Thanks, I'll try it.

[tiredoflaundry]

sorwy I burped!

[ican'tbelieveit]

Did you hear the reporters: You are on video... you have been warned...

[WoodstockCat]

may their feet find a manhole missing a cover...

[owl37]

I just got a call from a resident of Slidell who evacuated but got a call from some one in the city government there before the communication went down. So this is third hand hearsay, the description he received was "total devastation". Since then I haven't heard of anyone either establishing contact or receiving news. I am very anxious.

[Johnny Crab]

Must not be in Mississippi or Texas

[1Old Pro]

Shep is back on Fox.

Must have run out of snacks at the Bar.

[Abigail Adams]

Unbelievable! I wasn't able to get WDSU for some reason.

[tiredoflaundry]

heehee

[Marysecretary]

Aim for the chest.

[BurbankKarl]

Did you see the looting on channel 6!!!

[AuH2ORepublican]

"WDSU still asking for Slidell residents to call in.

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

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Hopefully, that's because both land and cellular phone lines are out of service in the area. I would think that cellular phone towers make inviting targets for hurricanes.

[monday]

"I mean, I guess we'd expect it to be evacuated but wouldn't SOMEBODY with a cell phone have ridden it out?"

Maybe they have bigger worries than talking to idiotic reporters. Also considering electricity is out, no one can hear the appeals for people call in. Personally I would be saving my batteries to dial 911 if necessary.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Yep. Don't like them fireants.

[Johnny Crab]

Re Slidell:

I'd believe it. The folks here from that city said they expect "nothing will be left" when they arrived.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

The eyewall went over Slidell. It could be really, really bad.

[leilani]

There weren't any houses on the island after that hurricane. They started over.

Not true. Plenty of the old victorians and even some antebellum houses survived, and you can tour many of them every year at the GHF Historic Home Tour (excuse the plug) Palladin I think said that they let the first floors of masonry bldgs become basements under the fill, but in fact they were jacked up too (Ashton Villa, Bishops Palace plus scores of others, including big old honkin' churches). Really an amazing feat.

[silentknight]

MASSIVE

http://www.usawx.com/mondaymassivekatrinay.jpg


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