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

[KakaduDreamer]

We need a "Lake Ponchatrain" / "Levee" Cam....

[snowsislander]

If it hasn't been posted:

VORTEX DATA MESSAGE
A. 29/10:02:00Z
B. 28 deg 59 min N
  089 deg 36 min W
C. 700 mb 2381 m
D. NA  kt
E. NA  deg     nm
F. 098 deg 109 kt
G. 349 deg 035 nm
H.         918 mb
I.  11 C/ 3047 m
J.  18 C/ 3050 m
K.  15 C/ NA
L. CLOSED
M. C25
N. 12345/ 7
O. 0.02 / 1  nm
P. AF306 2112A KATRINA      OB 08
MAX FL WIND 128 KT NE QUAD 08:57:50 Z

[barb-tex]

Re:Nuke, Check world net daily. NEC say that no worry,plant is shut down as well as the one north of Baton Rouge. (Why am I not comforted by this?) Also this plant is very near the flight pattern of the N.O. airport. This one was built close to NO to assure us how safe they were.
barbra ann

[mware]

Did you see what happen at that Best Western last night?

Reported here that a computer cliche did not report that hotel was booked solid. They accepted 10,000 reservations, or so they say.

MIght be one of those urban legends in the making, who knows.

[SunnySide]

http://www.intellicast.com/WeatherImg/CurrentWeather/usa.jpg

geez, the neck of the swan shape got wider up and down the entire eastern coastline.

[benjaminjjones]

I thought I had done the "eyewall dance" once during Hurricane Belle in Neptune, NJ in 1976, but when I checked the old (primitive) storm tracks, I don't think it came ashore, so it must have just been in one of the arms of the hurricane.

[eastforker]

I see theye is back and a tad smaller, not good.

[pollyg107]

Fox reporting buoy 50 miles east of MS River reported 46-foot waves.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

FNC reports a buoy 50 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi registered a 46 ft wave.

[justa-hairyape]

KFWB got a hold of New Orleans News Crew. They are not in Downtown New Orleans. They moved away. That was not a report from downtown. They did lose power where they are located now about 20 miles west of New Orleans city. Horizontal Sheets of Rain. Tropical Storm Force winds there now. Severe winds expected in 1 to 1 1/2 hours.

[Ellesu]

I hope that doesn't mean too many of them stayed in their homes down there.

[ElisabethInCincy]

Is it taking the bad path ?.. The dreaded path ? i just woke help me please

[bobdsmith]

must be an error

[mabelkitty]

This is based on the eye passing over directly, right?
What if the eye moves east? Is the danger the same?
I don't want to have a false sense of security, either.

[pollyg107]

May be an error, I don't know -- just passing on what FNC is reporting.

[spectre]

Oh no, what a night mare.

OTOH, with the tourist and gaming industry down for awhile, there are going to be many people hurting for a paycheck. It's terrible.

sw

[Coldwater Creek]

Heard on Fox that 80% had been evacuated. If that is true what about the other 20%????????

[mabelkitty]

Jeff Goldblatt and crew went to the W hotel last night.

[SunnySide]

Look at the intell map and the entire hurricane has completely covered LA now.

[Nita Nupress]

And if he gets blown away . . . . . oh, well.

Stop it! I like Shep. He can be obnoxious sometimes, but I'd still like to have him around!

I'm glad for NO that it's not going to be as bad as it could have. Everyone stay safe!

NN, thanks for the wonderful threads!