Mission Summary
20190711H1 Aircraft 42RF
Ferry

Aircraft Crew (42RF)
Aircraft CommanderJustin Kibbey
Co-pilotPat Didier
Co-pilotDean Legidakes
Flight EngineerPaul Heystek
Flight EngineerMike Sanchez
NavigatorPete Freeman
Flight DirectorJack Parrish
System EngineerAkshar Patel
Data TechnicianTerry Lynch
Data TechnicianTodd Richards

Science crew (42RF)
LPSFrank MarksHRD
RadarTrey AlveyCIMAS
DropsondeSteve DiazHRD
DropsondeSim AbersonHRD
AXBTNicholas JohnsonUAlabama

Science crew (Ground)
RadarJohn GamacheHRD

Mission Plan :

NOAA 42RF (N42) will carry out a TDR mission into Tropical Disturbance AL92 in the Gulf of Mexico.


Proposed flight track

Actual flight track

TDR MISSION PLAN: AL92 lawnmower pattern
Prepared by the Hurricane Research Division
July 10, 2019
Aircraft: N42RF
Proposed takeoff: 11/0800Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON RAD/AZM Time
deg min deg min n mi/deg hr:min
1S28 0086 01 105/0900:41
2S28 0089 59 105/2701:34
3S26 2988 58 105/2102:01
4S29 3187 01 105/0302:54
5S29 3188 59 105/3303:21
6S26 2987 02 105/1504:14

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Linder-Lakeland Airport, FL 08:08 UTC Linder-Lakeland Airport, FL 14:43 UTC
Expendables 18 GPS sondes 0 bad
5 AXBT 3 bad

Problems :


Mission Data :


Track with SFMR winds

Flight track with winds

Track with SFMR winds (Inner core)

Flight track with winds (Inner core)

Timeseries wind, SFMR wind, rain rate, altitude and pressure plots

HDOB data
LPS log | Data log | Radar log | Drop log | AXBT data
Flight Director's log | Flight Director's manifest | NetCDF data | 1 second data

Flight track

Flight track (detail)

Temperature and Moisture

Wind and Atlitude


Page last updated March 20, 2020
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