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

[Abigail Adams]

Wow, I can't imagine walking through a hurricane to get to the Superdome!

[LibSnubber]

I heard somewhere that the levee behind East Jefferson hospital has broken and that the hospital itself is flooding. Have you heard this anywhere yourself?

[cgk]

:)

(hey it's franklin...)

[cyborg]

Terrell better shake a leg.

[leadpenny]

I just climbed onto the thread and I'm sorry I missed whatever was going on.

You couldn't have been all that.





Well, maybe you could?

[BurbankKarl]

uh, the City is flooding....

[Michael Goldsberry]

Prayers for your family. I'm sorry about the bad news.

[CindyDawg]

In consideration of others in harms way I try to be careful with this. I'm an old ER nurse and I guess have a mash type sense of humor. Some things I see as funny, others don't. I was on the South Texas storm thread last month and probably posted some off the norm stuff myself.. If things had been worse I would probably have been a lot more serious, I guess though. You are invited to our next one, down here. Just keep it clean though or my husband will pull my plug:')

[Kryptonite]

Prayers go out to all those people in danger. I'm afraid the worst may be yet to come.

[Quilla]

Thanks for the update. If y'all need to, load up the dogs and head to Dothan - we have plenty of room and it looks like we're going to miss this one.

[cgk]

postscript: my soon-to-be 3 yr old can now look at a hurricane radar image on TV and identify the "eye." ack.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: "It has been at least 20 years since I've seen it and it would be a shame to lose it. In fact, I remember in the fifth grade at Cary Woods Elementary School here in Auburn, I contributed money to help with the USS Alabama acquisition and restoration. Or something like that."

Good for you! I am a big fan of the USS Texas and visited her many times when I lived in Houston years ago. To make a long story very brief, in a very troubled time in my life, that visit to the 'Bama got me over a rough spot. I'll always have a soft spot for the USS Alabama...

Hope she has weathered the storm.

[shield]

THANKS FOR THIS REPORT...WE'VE BEEN WORRIED...

[MaryFromMichigan]

This is a check in for blam. I am his son. I am writing on behalf of blam who asked me to report to you all. We have no power, trees down, high wind gusts, lotsa rain, but safe. Using laptop with limited power so will not be on again until later - maybe tomorrow. Cheers.

Prayers and hugs!!!!

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Yah, it hasn't gotten in higher, but the walls they built were supposed to protect them...ha! They are just poor people, so why not scrimp on materials? That happens there too much.

[aft_lizard]

I think they said yesterday was that the backside of the storm was more dangerous because the Lake would have the most surge at that time and then the backward winds would cause the most spillage, I pray that I am wrong.

[aBootes]

We who were here late last night were exchanging recipes to ease some of the tension

Just had three slices of toasted cinnamon-sugar tension reduction myself. Don't when I last thought of making some. If I hadn't been on last night, I'm sure I never would have.

[cyborg]

Keep the faith friend. We're all here for ya.