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Tropical Cyclone Reconnaissance Summaries Summaries: 2015-2016, 2014, 1979 to 2013 The summaries linked above are provided by the 53rd Weather Reconnaissace Sqadron /CARCAH The
53rd WRS is represented at the National Hurricane Center
facility in Miami and working together for a common mission of providing survelliance of tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Eastern and Central Pacific Ocean. NOAA aircraft fly out of MacDill Airforce Base in Tampa, Florida which are assigned to the 53rd WRS, a component of the 403rd Wind located at Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Mississippi. NOAA aircraft consists of two Lockheed WP-3D Orion (P-3s) and the Gulfstream IV SP (G-IV) jet. Airforce aircraft consists primarily of 10, WC-130h's. The primary purpose of reconnaissance missions is to fix (locate) the position of the storm. They also deploy dropsondes that transmit atmospheric data back to the maned aircraft. CARCAH Audio tour - provides a brief overview of CARCAH operations. NOAA Hurricane Hunters Facebook National Hurricane Center Aircraft Reconnaissance - offers information on the aircraft data missions, observational, vortex, dropsonde and other data and information on how to read reconnaissance data.
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MacDill AFB, Florida Looking Back - The attached letter is a personal look back at the U.S. Navy’s air craft support to the National Hurricane Center and how they contributed to the nation’s hurricane warning system prior to 1974. The account provides insight into how the Navy conducted their weather reconnaissance flights. The essay was written by Frank Nelson, Lt. CMDR (retired) who flew many of these missions as a pilot and aircraft commander. John Pavone Chief Ariel Reconnassaince Coordinator |
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