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

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I used to go to games there in those days...

[battlegearboat]

Lee Oswald, Friends For Cuba spokesman, curtails street activism, states he's moving to Dallas.

[CindyDawg]

I had an almond and pecan tree in my front yard that were blown down by a tropical storm a couple of years ago. We replanted with oaks. I noticed this morning that a healthy looking pecan growing back with the oak. I hate to pull it but I'm going to have to. The thing is , we removed the roots. I guess a piece left.

[Lazamataz]

Damn.

[KakaduDreamer]

I dunno, he looks sorta like Quentin Tarantino to me...

[RushCrush]

How mature.

[battlegearboat]

You have my condolences.

[cfo]

the worst seems to be over based on sat images

[benjaminjjones]

The IR loop? I've kept it open in a separate window for the last 24 hours and just refresh it occasionally.

I just want to stay awake until after that heavy red part passes the lake.

Plus, this thread is so fast, I'm getting scroll vertigo.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Hampton Tunnel, going to Newport News from VA Beach/Norfolk.

Army tank truck (carrying water, fuel, don't know) in a convoy next me that I'm passing has a brake lock up, tire and brake drum, axle, and rear of trailer trailer begin burning. Whole tunnel filled quickly with smoke fumes.

No explosion fortunately.

[RobFromGa]

one heck of a drink called "Hurricane Katrina.

They are probably lined up at the Trademark Office as we speak.

[fhlh]

"Southern Comfort"

[TheBigB]

CNN said that earlier, I think..."total structural collapse" in NOLA. Some folks keep saying "the worst is over" and others are saying it's still getting worse.

[FeliciaCat]

I bet. In honor of Mr. Keller and his sheer stupidity of course.

[jeffers]

"Fairly heavy street flooding in front and behind the Times-Picayune . . . water appears about knee deep,
whipped by the steady wind into whitecaps and breakers. Water is hubcap deep on the furthest vehicles
in the employee parking lot, and rising quickly."

Probably a breach, but not a wall-of-water sized hole...yet.

If they turn out with shoring and sandbags, they stand a good chance of closing it before it opens much further.

Anyone have current windspeeds in downtown NO?

[cajungirl]

LSU stadium is almost done with a massive build,,new sky boxes, etc. Was supposed to be ready for start of season but won' t be. We don't want the Saints coming here,,the traffic is bad enough.

[BulletBobCo]

Keep the jokes clean.

[battlegearboat]

President Bush mulling over releasing oil reserves.

[jayef]

And the pumps won't be back on line util 3 PM at the earliest.

[4everontheRight]

CNN reporting 10 feet of water on Hwy 90 in Gulfport