Cat 5 Hurricane Katrina

[Mondy]

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA

1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

...DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED...

.HURRICANE KATRINA...A MOST POWERFUL HURRICANE WITH UNPRECEDENTED STRENGTH...RIVALING THE INTENSITY OF HURRICANE CAMILLE OF 1969.

MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. AT LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL...LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.

THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL. PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE...INCLUDING SOME WALL AND ROOF FAILURE.

HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY...A FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT.

AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK.

POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.

THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING...BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BEKILLED.

AN INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR HURRICANE FORCE...OR FREQUENT GUSTS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE...ARE CERTAIN WITHIN THE NEXT 12 TO 24 HOURS.

ONCE TROPICAL STORM AND HURRICANE FORCE WINDS ONSET...DO NOT VENTURE OUTSIDE!

[SxK]

Thanks Mondy - jeez and thats just from the wind!!

This is more like something out of a disaster movie - incredible.

[Methuselah]

I copied your warning onto Bad Astronomy Mond...I hope you don't mind mate??

[londonsnow]

Thanks Mondy - jeez and thats just from the wind!! 

This is more like something out of a disaster movie - incredible.

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i don't think i can remember anything as significant as this weatherwise. god help all those in this beast's path

[AmericanIceman]

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA

1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

...DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED...

.HURRICANE KATRINA...A MOST POWERFUL HURRICANE WITH UNPRECEDENTED STRENGTH...RIVALING THE INTENSITY OF HURRICANE CAMILLE OF 1969.

MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. AT LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL...LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.

THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL. PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE...INCLUDING SOME WALL AND ROOF FAILURE.

HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY...A FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT.

AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK.

POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.

THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING...BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BEKILLED.

AN INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR HURRICANE FORCE...OR FREQUENT GUSTS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE...ARE CERTAIN WITHIN THE NEXT 12 TO 24 HOURS.

ONCE TROPICAL STORM AND HURRICANE FORCE WINDS ONSET...DO NOT VENTURE OUTSIDE!

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Is that a real message issued? Can't find it on the net.

[Wayneywoo]

Can I just say that I have no comprehension as to what this thing will do to New Orleans. I do know it looks huge but I have never seen a Hurricane on satellite so I don't know what to think of this.

Here are some recent images of Katrina.....

Katrina Images

Our blessings go out to all......

[londonsnow]

Is that a real message issued?  Can't find it on the net.

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new orleans meteorologists are now saying that katrina is still strengthening, and is the worst storm in us history at this stage. a small chance it may weaken just prior to landfall

[Wayneywoo]

new orleans meteorologists are now saying that katrina is still strengthening, and is the worst storm in us history at this stage. a small chance it may weaken just prior to landfall

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Just heard pressure lower than Camille...but not as strong as the one (can't remember name, sorry) 1935 or the one 18.... and also heard it can't be sustained for much longer.....?

Edited August 28, 2005 by Wayneywoo

[clv101]

Is that a real message issued?  Can't find it on the net.

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It's here:

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/productview.php?pi...ersion=0&max=51

and here:

http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/la/allwarnings.html

both .gov sites so I guess it's real?

Edited August 28, 2005 by clv101

[SnowBear]

IceMan

http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/us/allwarnings.html

Edit > Find WWUS74 KLIX 281550 on that page

[AmericanIceman]

Thanks!

[rixxxgolf]

http://weather.gov

I use them, Camille has found her long lost Sister I fear.

I thought it was going to be bad, but this is beyond comprehension.

[rixxxgolf]

The "Labor Day" 1935 Hurricane hit a low of 892Mb.

Thats landfall pressure, others have hit lower over water i recall...

Will hunt the facts.

[Ryan M]

Is New Orleans the one considered the Amsterdam of USA because of all the canals? Because if it is New Orleans will be pummeled by Katrina, I was watching a programme about New Orleans and it says if it took a direct hit from a massive storm like Hurricane Andrew it would be flooded extremely badly

Hope there is no loss of Live during Katrina

[kold weather]

Ah,your talking about the 1935 labor day hurricane Wayneywoo,central pressure of 892mbs,with suspect winds of 200mph sustained.

I still see no sign of that ERC occuring,eye looks stable at present and still quite large,probably staving off ERC thanks to ever increasing SST's temps ahead of it and that the system is still likely Annular looking at satilite,and worse of all with night time and it still looking good,cooling of the cloud tops may help to cause even better convection to occur.

180mph winds are certainly not out of the question considering it keeps its structure.Truely shocking...and to think just 5 days ago TD-12 had formed and everyone thought it might barely reach a marginal hurricane.

By the way,pressure is STILL falling,now down to 906mbs,1mbs higher then Camille.

Edited August 28, 2005 by kold weather

[rixxxgolf]

The lowest sea-level pressure was estimated by a dropsonde (an instrument package dropped from an aircraft sent to determine typhoon location and intensity) in Typhoon Tip, 520 miles northwest of Guam on October 12, 1979. The pressure was 25.69 inches of mercury or 870 millibars (mb).

So that is the record, but the 1935 Hurricane holds the Hurricane Record, personnally, it wont beat it. winds are expected now, due to drag, to ever-so slightly ease. done to a breeze like 160MPH.

[AmericanIceman]

Is New Orleans the one considered the Amsterdam of USA because of all the canals? Because if it is New Orleans will be pummeled by Katrina, I was watching a programme about New Orleans and it says if it took a direct hit from a massive storm like Hurricane Andrew it would be flooded extremely badly

Hope there is no loss of Live during Katrina

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New Orleans sits between a huge lake and the Mississippi river and is below sea level. So, yeah, if they take a major strike...espically right to the east then water from the gulf will be pushed into the lake and then once the hurricane passing to the north slightly with winds blowing south...It'll push the lake back into the actual town of New Orleans. Looks like this is what this storm might just do. And if it's supposed to hit at high tide....

[londonsnow]

the next advisory is in 15 mins from noaa. can this thing strengthen even further? its at least as big as mitch. it dwarfs andrew and ivan.

[rixxxgolf]

thought it might barely reach a marginal hurricane.

By the way,pressure is STILL falling,now down to 906mbs,1mbs higher then Camille.

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Thought Camilles' lowest recorded was 909mb? Or is the 905mb a sea reading?

[SnowBear]

TCPAT2

BULLETIN

HURRICANE KATRINA INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 23A

NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL

1 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

...POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC HURRICANE KATRINA MENACING THE NORTHERN

GULF COAST...

A HURRICANE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTH CENTRAL GULF COAST

FROM MORGAN CITY LOUISIANA EASTWARD TO THE ALABAMA/FLORIDA

BORDER...INCLUDING THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS AND LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN.

A HURRICANE WARNING MEANS THAT HURRICANE CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED

WITHIN THE WARNING AREA WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. PREPARATIONS TO

PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY SHOULD BE RUSHED TO COMPLETION.

A TROPICAL STORM WARNING AND A HURRICANE WATCH ARE IN EFFECT FROM

EAST OF THE ALABAMA/FLORIDA BORDER TO DESTIN FLORIDA...AND FROM

WEST OF MORGAN CITY TO INTRACOASTAL CITY LOUISIANA. A TROPICAL

STORM WARNING MEANS THAT TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED

WITHIN THE WARNING AREA WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. A HURRICANE WATCH

MEANS THAT HURRICANE CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE WATCH

AREA...GENERALLY WITHIN 36 HOURS.

A TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS ALSO IN EFFECT FROM DESTIN FLORIDA

EASTWARD TO INDIAN PASS FLORIDA...AND FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY

LOUISIANA WESTWARD TO CAMERON LOUISIANA.

FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA...INCLUDING POSSIBLE

INLAND WATCHES AND WARNINGS...PLEASE MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED

BY YOUR LOCAL WEATHER OFFICE.

AT 1 PM CDT...1800Z...THE CENTER OF HURRICANE KATRINA WAS LOCATED

NEAR LATITUDE 26.5 NORTH... LONGITUDE 88.6 WEST OR ABOUT 180 MILES

SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.

KATRINA IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST NEAR 13 MPH...AND A TURN

TOWARD THE NORTH-NORTHWEST IS EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS.

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 175 MPH...WITH HIGHER GUSTS.

KATRINA IS A POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC CATEGORY FIVE HURRICANE ON

THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE. SOME FLUCTUATIONS IN STRENGTH ARE LIKELY

DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.

HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 105 MILES FROM THE

CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP

TO 205 MILES.

THE ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 906 MB...26.75 INCHES.

COASTAL STORM SURGE FLOODING OF 18 TO 22 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TIDE

LEVELS...LOCALLY AS HIGH AS 28 FEET ALONG WITH LARGE AND DANGEROUS

BATTERING WAVES...CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR AND TO THE EAST OF WHERE THE

CENTER MAKES LANDFALL. SIGNIFICANT STORM SURGE FLOODING WILL OCCUR

ELSEWHERE ALONG THE CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO COAST.

RAINFALL TOTALS OF 5 TO 10 INCHES...WITH ISOLATED MAXIMUM AMOUNTS OF

15 INCHES...ARE POSSIBLE ALONG THE PATH OF KATRINA ACROSS THE GULF

COAST AND THE TENNESSEE VALLEY. RAINFALL TOTALS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES

ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY INTO THE EASTERN GREAT LAKES

REGION TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.

ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE BEGINNING THIS EVENING OVER

SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF LOUISIANA...MISSISSIPPI...AND ALABAMA...AND

OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE.

REPEATING THE 1 PM CDT POSITION...26.5 N... 88.6 W. MOVEMENT

TOWARD...NORTHWEST NEAR 13 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...

175 MPH. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE... 906 MB.

THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AT

4 PM CDT.

FORECASTER PASCH

[rixxxgolf]

Who needs Porn when you have a Hurricane season like this!?

[kold weather]

rixxxgolf you are correct,topped out with pressure of 905mbs and with max winds of 190mph,so Katrina still has to go up another 15mph to match this storm,which isn't impossible by any means either,providing it stays Annular there is nothing there to stop this storm...it really is a case of running for your lives.

By the way,Camille came in as a 165mph category-5,expect Katrina to be asd strog,if not a tad stronger....

Edited August 28, 2005 by kold weather

[rixxxgolf]

Katrina is going to test ALOT of building engineers promises when it torments the sky scrapers and tall buildings. 175mph SUSTAINED!!!

That is just plain demonic!

[SnowBear]

Repeat of earlier post of a local tv station bringing live reports

http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/wmP...&props=livenoad

[rixxxgolf]

1992 Andrews Path.

Look scarily familiar? Ok Katrina formed alot later, but from then on - it's not a dis-similar path!