Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI

NOAA - NHC ^ | 28 August 2005 | NOAA - NHC

[NautiNurse]

Extremely dangerous Hurricane Katrina is bearing down on the North Central Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans metro area. Thousands of people did not evacuate New Orleans. Outer bands of Katrina are reaching the Louisiana coast.

Due to the size and intensity of this storm, all interests in the North Gulf of Mexico should be in their safe locations.

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

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:

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

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

[Dog Gone]

I am in complete despair. I can hardly believe that the worst case scenario for hurricanes and the Gulf coast is about to unfold. We are about to lose an entire precious US city.

The doomsday scenario was fun to play with on the computer models. There's nothing fun about this. Hell is about to be unleashed.

[Northern Yankee]

Anyone who doesn't like MRE's never had to eat C-rations! ;-)

Absolutely right. I'll take MRE's anyday of the week.

[pax_et_bonum]

Oops - that didn't work. Don't know how I did that.

[Sonar5]

42040 New report

Wind Direction (WDIR): E ( 80 deg true )
Wind Speed Wind Speed (WSPD): 36.9 kts
Wind Gust Wind Gust (GST): 46.6 kts
Wave Height Wave Height (WVHT): 32.2 ft

32.2 is the highest BOUY report thus far.

Station 42040 - MOBILE SOUTH 64 nm South of Dauphin Island, AL

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=42040

[RDTF]

Thank you for doing that!

[Lurker 50001]

"This whole thing is a nightmare."

No, is a nightmare in reverse, the real horror will be when we wake tomorrow.

Lurker

[commish]

REcon is in the storm right now. he may have seen a Recon report and mistaken the 140 in it as 140MPH when it may actually be 140KT. Just a speculation.

Last report was 160 MPH, and there has been no recon data since then to change the report to 140.

[Maigrey]

Quit spinning. He made an outrageous statement and got called for it. I read it before it got yanked.

He should be ashamed for saying such drivel.

[homemom]

I haven't seen Rita Cosby for awhile (thankfully) . . . did she go somewhere else?

[Sonar5]

You're not helping.. Please stop...

[oceanview]

where is Shep Smith? what is the estimated landfall time?

[Revel]

The City of New Orleans
by Steve Goodman

Riding on the City of New Orleans,
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
All along the southbound odyssey
The train pulls out at Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields.
Passin' trains that have no names,
Freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.

CHORUS:
Good morning America how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car.
Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score.
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor.
And the sons of pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel.
Mothers with their babes asleep,
Are rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.

CHORUS

Nighttime on The City of New Orleans,
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee.
Half way home, we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness
Rolling down to the sea.
And all the towns and people seem
To fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news.
The conductor sings his song again,
The passengers will please refrain
This train's got the disappearing railroad blues.

Good night, America, how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

©1970, 1971 EMI U Catalogue, Inc and Turnpike Tom Music (ASCAP)

[Crazieman]

Yeah, more than likely 140 knots

[Howlin]

Plain and simple, she's lying.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472323/posts?page=2374#2374

[LadyPilgrim]

Rita went to MSNBC.

[Riley]

Anyone who doesn't like MRE's never had to eat C-rations! ;-)

Heh. I remember that. Remember 'Eunice King Kitchens' and that evil cake that took an entire canteen of water to wash it down?

MREs are a delicacy. The only thing that C's had going for them is the ability to use the B-2 cans as stoves, if you had some C4 or some Trioxane.

[gpapa]

BURL1
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=burl1
0200 GMT on 08/29/2005
Wind Direction (WDIR): ENE ( 60 deg true )
Wind Speed (WSPD): 60 kts
Wind Gust (GST): 78 kts
Atmospheric Pressure (PRES): 29.21 in
Pressure Tendency (PTDY): -0.17 in ( Falling Rapidly )
Air Temperature (ATMP): 80.8 °F

[newzjunkey]

MRE's have a good brownie.

[RockyTop4GOP]

Red beans and rice? Yum!

Now that you mention it, I have some in my freezer that need to be defrosted, and tomorrow is Monday. Red Beans are the easiest Cajun dish to make. The only thing that doesn't require a roux.

[seams2me]

Yes, that's the one I was looking at just now.

Sitting next to me is a retired Merchant Marine captain.

We are rivited.