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

[sageb1]

"the ONLY way to have fun with fire ants is to POKE at them with a stick...that is just the most fun you can have here in Texas...kick a fire ant hill and run like the dickens...."

lol! Guilty!

[dfwgator]

[Types_with_Fist]

Is anybody hearing anything out of Gulfport?

[rit]

See the slidell web site at http://www.slidell.la.us/
Mayor has a statement about evacuating the city, but that is about all the Katrina news I saw at their site.

[CindyDawg]

Is that why Mt Belview (ms?) had the collapse that time?

[cgk]

I can't remember if this one was posted yet:

http://www.wwltv.com/

Live video stream is top link.

[Abigail Adams]

Bernard perish, Judge Perez drive, firefighters trapped at civic center due to rising floodwaters. They can't make rescues.

[js1138]

Hurricne Dora left us with no power and no running water for three weeks. That was a few years ago. My dad had prepared with a shallow well and a hand pump. We got some exercise just flushing the toilet.

[SoothingDave]

Want to take this to the NES or just drop it? I don't want to bog down their thread with a theological debate.

No, that's fine. I've said my piece, at least until someone posts that I was encouraging looters.

SD

[Smogger]

WWLTV reporting:

Mayor: 200 trapped on Ninth Ward rooftops; bodies floating in Bywater

02:37 PM CDT on Monday, August 29, 2005

WWLTV.com

Mayor Ray Nagin said that 200 people were stranded on rooftops in the Lower Ninth Ward and several “bodies are floating in the water” in the Bywater neighborhood and in Eastover.

Nagin made the announcement in his first press briefing after Hurricane Katrina slammed just east of the city, but did plenty of devastation to New Orleans.

Nagin said that the 200 stranded people included 20 police officers who were riding out the storm at their homes in preparation to take over shifts from other officers. He said that boats would be dispatched on rescue missions later in the afternoon.

Mayor Nagin issued a "boil water" recommendation for water in the city - except for Algiers and the CBD due to a water main line break that may have compromised the water.

Nagin said at least 20 buildings in the city had collapsed and that it might be 48 hours before residents would be allowed back to their homes to assess the damage.

[WoodstockCat]

I prefer firecrackers ...and gasoline.

[dawn53]

That's what I've been wondering. Haley Barbour's news conference was a little chilling concerning Biloxi and Gulfport, but no news casts about it at all. I guess they can't get in to find out yet.

[Abigail Adams]

Only that most structures in Gulfport are damaged in some way...maybe 75% of roofs is what I heard?

[Knitting A Conundrum]

yep. Was there 28 years, went to Bienville Elementary, McDonough 28, Abramson High, then got my degree from UNO and worked at Delgado. New Orleans is more my home than any other place in the world.

A lot more my home than Ogden UT!

[silentknight]

Gulf Port Fire Chief "We are looking at Camille II"

[Centurion2000]

So what's going on? I've been offline for a couple of weeks.

[Frank_Discussion]

I knew it was coming, but d*mn...

[the Deejay]

Sinking is sinking, no matter how it occurs. imo.

[LizardQueen]

One of the news channels did a phone interview yesterday with a woman in Grand Isle who was reluctant to leave. She was saying how her whole life was there etc.

I keep hoping she came to her sense and got out of there in time.

LQ

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I've been expecting to hear about bodies floating.

Lord have mercy on their souls.

WGNO is going to send a crew out to Slidell. Maybe we'll hear something more definitive when they get their report.