Mission Summary
20030712N1 Aircraft 49RF
Synoptic Surveillance flight
around Tropical Storm Claudette 2003
| Sonde Scientist | Mike Black |
| Sonde Scientist | Mike Black |
The G-IV jet, with scientific crew of Mike Black conducted an NHC-tasked synoptic surveillance mission around Tropical Storm Claudette at the nominal time of 00 UTC/July 13. A cameraman from a Tampa PBS station went along to record the mission. Take-off was at 1:30 PM EDT from MacDill AFB and landing at 8:45 PM EDT at MacDill AFB. The mission transmitted 24 sondes.
Mission Summary :
Graphics of sonde drops at various levels
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Problems :
| DROP LOCATIONS | |||
| Drop # | LAT (d m) |
LON (d m) |
TIME (h:mm) |
| 1 | 26 00 | 84 00 | 0:18 |
| 2 | 24 00 | 83 30 | 0:35 |
| 3 | 22 30 | 85 00 | 0:52 |
| 4 | 22 15 | 87 00 | 1:08 |
| 5 | 23 00 | 88 45 | 1:23 |
| 6 | 21 15 | 90 00 | 1:41 |
| 7 | 22 00 | 91 30 | 1:54 |
| 8 | 20 30 | 93 00 | 2:11 |
| 9 | 20 00 | 95 00 | 2:27 |
| 10 | 22 45 | 97 00 | 2:55 |
| 11 | 22 45 | 94 15 | 3:16 |
| 12 | 25 15 | 95 00 | 3:38 |
| 13 | 27 00 | 95 30 | 3:53 |
| 14 | 29 00 | 95 00 | 4:09 |
| 15 | 27 45 | 93 30 | 4:25 |
| 16 | 28 15 | 91 00 | 4:44 |
| 17 | 27 15 | 89 00 | 5:02 |
| 18 | 25 15 | 88 00 | 5:20 |
| 19 | 24 45 | 86 00 | 5:36 |
| 20 | 27 00 | 87 00 | 5:56 |
| 21 | 28 45 | 88 00 | 6:12 |
| 22 | 30 00 | 86 30 | 6:28 |
| 23 | 28 00 | 85 00 | 6:48 |
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