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

[myprecious]

Only the center of the storm has made landfall. The back half of the storm is still coming. Hurricane force winds for another 3-4 hours. It ain't over.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: "Said that the dome generates its own weather systems. Now that air conditioning is off, they could get rain and lighting inside the astro dome."

Back in the early 1970s, they had a power outage in the Houston Astrodome and yes... It did rain inside... I saw it with my own eyes... And felt it on my pointed little head...

No lightning though....

[Northern Yankee]

The dear boy dropped his Bloody Mary...

That would be my beverage of choice right about now. LOL...

Good Morning.

[Chuck54]

it's WHAT the wind is blowin'

.......and there stands Orlando Salinis (sp) in Orange Beach, wiping crap out of his eyes, where they have never, ever heard of SAFETY GLASSES?

[SunnySide]

It's a good thing LA evacuated many of its citizens because Florida only experienced (the same)Katrina as a category 1 hurricane and nine people died.

[maquiladora]

Talk about localised weather...

[gopwinsin04]

ABC news reporting that. I think they meant AC.

[trillabodilla]

Thank you. We are all safely tucked inside. Hubby and son are still asleep and the cats are reluctant residents of the garage/shop.

The wind has really picked up, too.

[spectre]

In defense of our Weather people, IF I saw a storm that large heading for my home, they wouldn't have to tell ME to evacuate. Jeez.

sw

[MEG33]

Exactly

[Northern Yankee]

Exactly right.

The evacuation was needed.

No telling how many lives it will have saved.

[NonValueAdded]

The Florida deaths were darwinian ones - all were people out in the storm hit by falling trees.

[I_dmc]

Or see the movie, Cry Wolf, on Sept 16th.

[SlowBoat407]

I do not believe it is "alarmist" to cry wolf when there is a wolf at the edge of the woods with a keen eye on your little cottage in the clearing. If the wolf wanders off, it is good news, not an occasion to berate someone with a legitimate concern and a forecast that was good to the limits of the current technology and experience.

I would love for us to have enough confidence to say one day that a storm that is barreling in on us will turn away or weaken at the last minute.

Maybe one day we can truly predict at birth who is going to be a serial killer, too.

[proud American in Canada]

We had a stiff little wind out of the west blowing here in east TX yesterday evening and to reassure my mom staying in Baton Rouge, told her we were sending help in the form of dry wind that would shear off the top of the hurricane.

LOL! And that's exactly what it looks like on the radar screen--there's a lot of blue suddenly on Katrina's west side. :)

I have to say, deep inside I'm chalking part of (?) this up to all of the prayers said yesterday.

[benjaminjjones]

I am expecting to see someone strolling in front of streetcarcam

It's out now, but in about 60 minutes, with 145mph winds, I was expecting to see a streetcam go flying by.

[spectre]

SIX more hours, my friend.

sw

[bored at work]

river cam is out too.

http://www.nola.com/rivercam/index.ssf?video

[newzjunkey]

WWL is saying there will be no widespread flooding in NO and folks will be back in the city in a couple days for damage assessment.

[Northern Yankee]

Prayers sent your way.

Clear skies, as the sun is starting to meet the horizon here. 57 degrees.

A completely different world in Louisianna right now.

God Speed.