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

[shield]

Parish is a county...just a different name.

[Petronski]

Plenty of noise from the thread police too.

[cyborg]

LOL...not that would be funny provided Harrigan doesn't go out again and get himself killed.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Also recall that the urban area of NO stretches 20+ miles from east to west, and the center of the storm passed just east of the metro, so the impact will vary greatly from one end to the other.

[Krodg]

I'm on dialup and I don't mind :)

[jeffers]

Source?

[AmericanMade1776]

The roof of the Louisiana Superdome is shredded by strong winds of Hurricane Katrina as it batters the Crescent City on Monday, Aug. 29,

[cgk]

Oh man. I hope the US Army Corps of Engineers can get/keep the pumps online.

[WestCoastGal]

I wondered that myself. Maybe there are buildings that have covered walkways between them? [anyone?? that would be south of LP by his directions]It sounded like he was inside, there was no loud noise from the wind like many outdoor reports.

His report was very chilling. He said he had video and would try at some point to get it to Fox.

[Calpernia]

Snakes are strong swimmers.

[cyborg]

I think that's the same guy, Terrell and last time they showed his pic he was in the street.

[CedarDave]

Oil patch country in SE NM -- someone's been reading the loss or refining capacity, hopefully very temporary, and already raised prices. I figured this was going to happen and filled up last evening.

[Elyse]

The tornados will probably be occuring more inland as the hurricane progresses through the state.

[dirtboy]

Plenty of noise from the thread police too.

Uh, dude, the mods asked everyone to drop the noise. I'm not going to respond to any more of these type posts and stick to posting news or responding to questions where I can answer them.

I'd appreciate it if everyone else would do the same.

[hoosiermama]

Don't know for sure, but it may have something to do with the traffic log.....

The Oceanologist who spoke had been forecasting what would happen if a category V hit NO for some years...He was quite knowledgeable and apparently people in position WERE listening to him. He kept emphasizing that many of the shelters were NOT safe for the stronger hurricanes of if the levies broke, that to use them would just invite MAJOR catastrophes. He gave the statistics on how many people didn't drive in the city, the problems with transportation That it would take up to a week to evacuate ALL the people who needed help. He reiterated the generally "doom" that a Cat V would produce.......

Very knowledgeable and his voice sounded very shaky (almost in tears) by the time he finished.....Thank God his prediction did not come true and that prayers were answered....Maybe it will be a wake up call for NOLA.

[Abigail Adams]

I had heard a couple of hours ago that pumps had failed already. I think that's accurate???

[Frank_Discussion]

STORM SURGE!!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472820/posts

[bwteim]

"And where are all the tornadoes they said would happen?"

Here are a few warnings.... since 8:26 AM today....


TORNADO WARNING JACKSON MS - KJAN 1103 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005
TORNADO WARNING MOBILE AL - KMOB 1100 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005
TORNADO WARNING NEW ORLEANS-BATON ROUGE LA - KLIX 1049 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005
TORNADO WARNING TALLAHASSEE FL - KTAE 1129 AM EDT MON AUG 29 2005
TORNADO WARNING TALLAHASSEE FL - KTAE 1121 AM EDT MON AUG 29 2005
TORNADO WARNING JACKSON MS - KJAN 1004 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005
TORNADO WARNING MOBILE AL - KMOB 1000 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005
TORNADO WARNING NEW ORLEANS-BATON ROUGE LA - KLIX 950 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005
TORNADO WARNING NEW ORLEANS-BATON ROUGE LA - KLIX 943 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005
TORNADO WARNING MOBILE AL - KMOB 858 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005
TORNADO WARNING NEW ORLEANS LA - KLIX 842 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005
TORNADO WARNING MOBILE AL - KMOB 841 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005
TORNADO WARNING NEW ORLEANS LA - KLIX 836 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005
TORNADO WARNING MOBILE AL - KMOB 834 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005
TORNADO WARNING MOBILE AL - KMOB 826 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005

[sissyjane]

Someone posted that the city of New Orleans was flooded south of the lake...what I'm trying to find out is how much of the city.

[Cvengr]

Unfortunately the storm isn't even half way over for most, and for several days afterwards, the rivers will continue to grow with more drainage/flooding problems arising.