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

[Coldwater Creek]

Shep is saying that Katrina has move to the East some and when asked about his family in Holly Springs, Miss. a suburb of Memphis, he said that we were going to have tropical storm winds clear up here. Now I have to not only worry about the kids in the Gulf, but the rest of the bunch in Memphis. We have more trees per sq. ft. than anywhere in the country.

[GOP_Proud]

Yep...nothing but the tree in the foreground.

[Peach]

It's outrageous that nursing homes would be left unattended except for one individual. It's clear NO either didn't have a plan or the mayor chose to ignore The Plan.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Steve on FNC just said that the winds are 150 MPH, but since the storm is moving at 15 MPH, it will feel like the winds are 165 MPH...

Gad! I sometimes wonder where Steve comes up with this stuff...

[AntiGuv]

PS. I just took a look at the Tropical Weather Discussion from the National Hurricane Center and it looks as if the tropical wave over by the Cape Verde Islands is expected to be cyclonic within two days.

The streetlight just went out across from the StreetcarCam..

[benjaminjjones]

Has anyone mentioned if there is eyewall rotation?

I think they all rotate. I'm getting dizzy watching all that radar rotation for the past 20 hours.

I think you might mean eyewall replacement.

The Weather Channel mentioned that, but they weren't sure if it was happening yet. I think if it gets replaced, it gets stronger, otherwise it breaks up and gets weaker.

[bobdsmith]

When does the sun come up? (or is that a stupid quesiton?)

[spectre]

Think about Gulfport and Biloxi being the almost same place. Cantore is right off the beach in a Civic Center.

He's going to be wired when this is over..

sw

[AntiGuv]

StreetcarCam streetlight back on!

[Fresh Wind]

The nuke plant's been shut down and secured as of yesterday.

[mabelkitty]

Morning, all.
I'll be here for an hour before I have to leave for work.
Shep checked in - he's okay, and he's definately still in the French Quarter.

[SunnySide]

http://www.nola.com/cgi-bin/nph-cachecam.cgi?camid=paradecam&ols=nolalive&ts=20050829055953&ct=20

streetcar cam pic only loaded halfway, looks like it's getting narly out there. I woke up without alarm clock just fifteen minutes ago. I knew this storm would hit right about now.

[benjaminjjones]

Intellicast say Sunrise: 6:36 am (I'm assuming Central Time).

I don't think anyone's going to see any sun there today, unless then run outside while the eye is passing over.

[Coldwater Creek]

In about 45 minutes or so. Should be about 6:15

[Peach]

Yes, I think that's the term I heard them mention last night. Eyewall replacement.

I never thought I'd be glad to hear of winds in the 145 mph category, but since the high of this storm was about 179...

[mabelkitty]

Yes it is.

Not out yet of the woods yet, but down to cat 4, winds at 140, shifting a little, moving quicker, etc.

[spectre]

We had reservations in Biloxi for next Monday, and on to Destin area for a week. NOW, I'm in limbo with this. But I'm not complaining..boo..hoooo. :)

sw

[justa-hairyape]

I worry about Shep speaking a little too soon. He seemed much too calm.

Drank too many Hurricanes ? The worse flooding is supposed to occur after the eye goes north of Lake Ponchatrain and the winds on the back side blow that water over the levees. Wind induced current from pressure. Basic physics.

[dawn53]

He's just trying to make himself feel better. Can't blame him, I guess. Yesterday he seemed pretty shaken as anybody would be.

The guy in the street seems to have more of a handle on reality, (and what happened to the guy at the Dome, I think his name was Jeff Goldblatt.)

But it sounds like Shep thinks they've dodged the bulled and doesn't think they'll be flooding, and maybe there won't, but I don't think the thread of flooding has past.

[Semper911]

I worry about Shep speaking a little too soon.

I worry about Shep period. I hope we don't lose him. (...and I don't mean just his cell signal.)