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

[FeliciaCat]

I hope your sister is ok.

[sfimom]

Prayerd sent and continue for your wife, coworkers and all involved.

[Dog Gone]

It's the visibile satellite view of the storm which "floats" to keep it in the visible frame as it tracks along its journey.

[Siobhan]

My prayers for the delightful mr. blam.

[kenth]

You can see the hurricane move east a bit. That is the jog being talked about. As for the destructive force of the winds, the NE quadrant of the eyewall usually produces more serious damage. NO was spared that.

[SlowBoat407]

Careful what you post on this thread....we have thread cop r9eth breathing down our necks. Already nailed me for mentioning illegals.... and "I" didn't start the discussion. Just replied to a post. FGS.

Alright, we'll have NO discussions about the nature of thread discussions on THIS thread. We'll discuss it later.

[Dead Dog]

That reminds me of the Fish and Game poster urging people to wear bells on their shoes and to pack pepper spray when in Brown Bear country.

Down Further on the memo was a guide to ID bear dropping. Black Bear was small, purple, and full of berries. Brown Bear poop had bells and spelled like pepper.

[Palladin]

Hey, blam and blam's son...glad to hear you are OK.

[Diddle E. Squat]

This map may not load well, but search New Orleans if there is a problem.

http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=15&Z=15&X=122&Y=518&W=2&qs=%7cnew+orleans%7cla%7c

The Industrial Canal runs north/south on the east side of NO, from the Lakefront Airport on the north to the Miss. River, with the Intercoastal Waterway intersecting it from the east about half way down.

[Spktyr]

It's *still* better than an unpowered multiton building that just came off the foundation or flooded up to the roof.

[Abigail Adams]

Some levee overtopping, one report of levee breach in Orleans parish.

[The Toll]

God love her she ain't the sharpest tool in the shed but she's got heart. When I spoke to her last, early this morning she was under the bed with her Green Bay Packers helmet on. Lots a Bret Farve fans back home.

[dawn53]

He said he didn't know how many people had evacuated, and there was massive flooding, so they won't be able to deploy for awhile to start helping people who are stranded.

Prayers for your wife...where exactly is she?

[Trident/Delta]

Damn, my son, who is home on leave from Iraq, just called and checked in early from leave and volunteered to go to NO for relief duty. The USMC Duty officer said that he had a LOOOOOONG roster of Marines gearing up to go and help. Where do we get young men like these????

Semper Proud!

[Chesterbelloc]

No that's not the article, but I found the first part of it online. It mentions what could happen to Bourbon Street and other areas of New Orleans:

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/index.html

[Arizona Carolyn]

There has been quite a bit about this on Discovery Channel and National Geographic Channel in the last couple of years. It is a very serious issue, but how to resolve it is an entirely different thing... after all, who wants to take down the levies on the Mississippi to allow the silt to free-flow into the Gulf once again? or the Levies around New Orleans that hold back the Mississippi and the Lake?

In the 'old' days they delt with the floods which washed the silt through and kept everyone at the same land-level. Then we decided to control mother nature... goes back to the "for every action" axiom.

[al baby]

me too

[eyespysomething]

Mostly from parents like you!!

;-)

[foreverfree]

We seem to have "skipped" from Irene to Katrina? Wasn't there a "J" storm? "Who" was he and when was he and where did he go? How long did he last?

ff

[Siobhan]

The County Donegal in me says every hurricane should remind us of Noah's Flood and our need to repent for having offended God individually and corporately. Modern Americans -- even secularists -- still have that percolating underneath the surface. And it is so true that it hurts.

Got Ark?