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

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: "I was there five years ago. A lot of those aricraft are in an enclosed hagar-like building. great looking aircraft. The Drum has been move ashore since then. It's near that building. I hope everything made it through the storm."

I hope so, too...

[Trident/Delta]

Time for a new thread???

Semper Curious

[r9etb]

SPECIAL THANKS ARE EXTENDED TO THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTER CREWS STATIONED AT KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE IN BILOXI MISSISSIPPI...WHO HAVE BEEN FLYING CONTINUOUS MISSIONS THROUGH KATRINA EVEN AS THEIR FAMILIES AND HOMES ARE BEING SERIOUSLY IMPACTED BY THIS HURRICANE.

Good Lord, please protect these people and their families.

[Marysecretary]

You can pray.

[WoodstockCat]

they haven't gotten the worst yet..my in-laws are there in Lamar Co.
I was watching stream wjtv.com out of Jackson and they said hurricane force+ winds should be in the Hattiesburg area in about 1/2 hour..current weather.com shows 50+ winds..gusts to 70..

[Calpernia]

Wish granted! :)

[Diddle E. Squat]

WWL: The flooding in Arabi wasn't a levee breach, but overtopping from the Miss. River. 10-12' deep.

[cyborg]

My PRESIDENT DUBYA!!!!!!!

[RoseofTexas]

I love our president...GOD TRULY BLESS HIM!!
Darn it! He started talking about immigration when the station cut him off! Curious to what he said concern the border crisis!

[Chesterbelloc]

Am I right in assuming that the worst of the storm hasn't gotten there?

The Oct. 2004 National Geographic had a very good article, "The Big Uneasy", about what could happen to New Orleans if a Catagory Five hit it. Worth a read if you, like me, have stacks of old National Geographics lying around.

One of the big threats was as the eye passed it first pushed water into Lake Pontchartrin and then as the eye moved north the wind over the lake shifted to the south pushing the water over the levees flooding the city.

Hopefully it has weakened enough that at flooding over those levees won't be as bad as was feared. Seems just a little too early to tell.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: 'The armor and hull is made of some of the thickest, most homogenous steel ever produced by man. A hurricane isn't going to do anything to it if the hatches are closed. In fact, even a tsunami probably wouldn't do much to the hull.

'On top of that and unlike a building, it *floats*. "What storm surge?"'

Yes, but an unpowered 45,000 ton battleship floating in Mobile Bay at the mercy of the winds would not be a good thing...

[Smogger]

11:52 a.m.: Evacuees Huddle In Hallways At Chalmette H.S. People who took shelter in Chalmette High School are now huddled in the hallways because the windows have blown out. The building has sustained significant damage. There are reports that the water is 10-feet deep near the high school and is rapidly rising. -- WDSU.com Web Staff

[STARWISE]

Gov.Barber giving a good recap of what will happen when winds and water allow search and rescue efforts.

"Looters will be treated relentlessly!" ..... YAY for that! Mentions .... "rules of engagement." ...

[Trust but Verify]

Whoa,did you just hear Haley Barbour tell looters he has instructed LE to deal with them 'ruthlessly'? The guy behind and to the right of him smirked. Funny.

[cgk]

What We Know: Parish By Parish

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What We Know: Parish By Parish

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Hurricane Katrina

• You're watching live continuing coverage of Hurricane Katrina

  12 P.M. Advisory

• The center of Hurricane Katrina was located near latitude 30.8 north, longitude 89.6 west, or about 40 miles south-southwest of Hattiesburg, Miss.
• Katrina is moving toward the north near 17 mph, and this motion is expected to continue over the next 24 hours.
• Maximum sustained winds are near 105 mph

  Phone Numbers

• Orleans Special Needs Residents: 658-2500
• Orleans Parish Special Needs Shelter in Alexandria: (800) 841-5778
• Orleans Parish Special Needs Shelter in Monroe: (866) 280-7287

  Bridges Closed

• Crescent City Connection Bridges Closed

  Health

  
  
• Residents advised to conserve water
• Contact with floodwaters should be avoided

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  16  parishes are now under advisories, watches, or severe weather warnings.

  Hancock County Harrison County Lower Jefferson Parish Upper Jefferson Parish Lower Lafourche Parish Upper Lafourche Parish Livingston Parish Orleans Parish Pearl River County Lower Plaquemines Parish Upper Plaquemines Parish

  Lower St. Bernard Parish Upper St. Bernard Parish St. Charles Parish St. James Parish St. John The Baptist Parish St. Tammany Parish Tangipahoa Parish Lower Terrebonne Parish Upper Terrebonne Parish Washington Parish

[BurbankKarl]

I guess if you are going to loot, do it in La. I heard the Winn Dixie was emptied out on CNN.