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

[Blue Scourge]

Yes, she said it was still really windy...I saw on here that someone posted water up to the 2nd floor of the Beau Rivage Casino...if that is the case than the entire Penn. of Biloxi is under water.

[Pyro7480]

There seems to be a difference of opinion on that question. But I think you're right. It could have been far worse.

[Diddle E. Squat]

slidell was under water last I heard.

Thanks for the info, I've gotten freepmails requesting any info on Slidell. Topo map suggests that most of the town is below 20' (though I-12 may have worked as a levee for the north side), don't know what the storm surge was forecast for there, but it ranged from 15' at NO to 28' at Gulfport.

[cgk]

Prayers headed your way!

[NautiNurse]

Thank you very much for the report. Keeping you and your wife in our prayers.

[Moose4]

Good grief, that's all the way over in Pensacola? Man, will they ever catch a break down there?

}:-)4

[deport]

Oil rig damage

Oil companies said Monday that it was too soon to tell how badly their Gulf of Mexico rigs were damaged by Hurricane Katrina, but they vowed to assess the situation Tuesday and return to normal operations as soon as possible.

"It's important for us to get back to business as much as usual," said Tony Lentini, vice president of public and international affairs for Apache. "It's important to the country."

Apache shut down 336 of its 386 Gulf rigs because of the storm.

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[Diddle E. Squat]

How many people live in Sidell?

30,000 plus in town, 100,000 in the area. Lots of subdivisions.

[Hurricane Andrew]

The problem is, while some had their prayers answered, others were still left to face the wrath of this monster.

[LibSnubber]

"I am looking for any information on Slidell and the north shore. I think it probably got a direct hit from the wall of the storm. This area has gone entirely unmentioned by the media and it may well turn out to have suffered the worst damage. Many, many people there didn't think they needed to evacuate. Please post what you hear."

You are not alone. There seems to be a growing no. of people posting looking for news on Slidell. Not much is coming out. This gives me a very bad feeling - no news is definitely not good news in this case. Whenever something re Slidell comes up, someone will post it I'm sure.

[Torie]

I think hurricanes tend to bounce off land a bit, and it looked like Katrina kind of did that around the Mississippi delta peninsula. That might not have happened if the eye had been 10 miles more west.

[Abigail Adams]

Gov of LA up now.

[MozartLover]

Guennie,

Please say a prayer for my son......he is at Camp Shelby, just south of Hattiesburg, MS & they are going through the worst of the storm right now........under a tornado warning...........

[Squantos]

I heard FNC weatherbunny say it was trashed, showed a map and how it was in the path of the worst winds etc etc ....no pics or other direct reports seen just saw yer point at Sidell on her map......

[Pyro7480]

Bottom line: God's will be done.

[Willie Green]

* BREAKING * - Bush may release strategic reserve oil

Please don't disturb us unless he decides to drill ANWR.
Anything less than that is the same lame game they've been playing for decades.

[RobFromGa]

I don't see the jog, but the weakening of the storm right before landfall was massive, and that is what saved NOLA. And also made the damage elsewhere less than it could have been.

[spectre]

I'm happy to hear you can still go on you cruise. Tell us how great it was, really!

We're going to cancel our trip to the Gulf Coast next Monday. It's for the best.

sw

[kx9088]

Including gas station owners. On my way home for lunch I passed 6 gas stations. All but one had the same price as they did on Saturday. The one that did not, raised their price for regular by 20 cents since yesterday evening around 5pm.

[cgk]

Prayers for your sister.