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

[silentknight]

"My block is okay so the city must be fine"

[1Old Pro]

My sister told me this morning that her 7 year-old asked why almost all the people in the line were black. Of course, it was something we all noticed, but nobody but a child would say it.

I saw alot of Blacks, but I also saw alot of Cajun White types.

[Types_with_Fist]

and there obviously was no levee-related flooding; just some water due to the rain.

Right. I saw that too right after the FQ report and knew it wasn't there. Must be upriver.

[Guenevere]

well, storm's over.....let's move on...

..Shep has spoken and said NO got lucky and dodged it again...

[mware]

I think the levees have been topped not breached.

[Trust but Verify]

The only way I see that being a good choice is if there is more refinery capacity than oil production for a period of time.

He should not do it just to make it look like he's 'doing something', as some people ahve suggested.

[Steve_Seattle]

"My sister told me this morning that her 7 year-old asked why almost all the people in the line were black. Of course, it was something we all noticed, but nobody but a child would say it."

Well, I said it too. My interpretation is that there were more black people without the resources to leave town. Any speculation beyond that would probably be controversial.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Plaquemine....

[Not A Snowbird]

levies on east side by Lake have TOPPED, some flooding beginning - Shep via emergency radio

I'm racking my brains to try and get a mental picture of where all this is happening. I lived aboard the Naval Support Activity on the West Bank nearly thirty years ago, and I want to say the town was Algiers. I do know it's below the river line, because we had to climb up from the parking lot to get to the shuttle boats to go to work.

[fhlh]

oh god, why are the headlights of that chevy truck ON!!!

[al baby]

Does anyone know how to get cinnamon toast stains out of a cotton comforter. I fell asleep with a paper plate on my chest with one piece left. I had 7 pieces yum but annie is mad at the stains

[cyborg]

[spectre]

These people were TOLD to evacuate and now they want to be saved ASAP? Amazing.

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[Michael Goldsberry]

Didn't he say flooding will begin now?

[jeffers]

She came ashore at Little Lake, due south of Pearlington, 4.3 miles west of the last graphic that went up.

http://photobucket.com/albums/y138/jeffers_mz/Katrina/?action=view&current=7amplots.jpg

The significant surge is much wider than the eyewall plot on that graphic, clear over to Mobile bay (unconf rpts at +16-17 feet, Hiway 90), though that may be a localized funnel effect.

Data on surge effects btwn Mobile NO will tell the story.

[HuronMan]

Fans now filing out of the Superdome, heading home.

[bwteim]

"Plackaman. (sp?) "


Randy Newman: Louisiana

What had happened down there was the wind had changed
Cloud rolled in from the north and it started to rain
It rained real hard and it rained for a real long time
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

The river rose all day, the river rose all night
Some got lost in the flood, some got away all right
The river busted through clear down to Plaquemine
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away

[Pyro7480]

WDSU streaming feed is on standby, no live reports at the moment....

[jayef]

Only an Ole Miss graduate would say something this stupid. French Quarter's OK, so the rest of New Orleans must be fine. Or is it that you really don't give a damn as long as you can park your arse at Pat O'Brien's?

[Rutles4Ever]

Is he flippin' retarded?