Mission Summary
20030714N1 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 has conducted an NHC-tasked synoptic surveillance mission around Hurricane Claudette at the nominal time of 00 UTC/July 15. Take-off was at 1:30 PM EDT from MacDill AFB and landing was at 10:00 PM EDT at MacDill AFB.
Mission Summary :
Problems :
| DROP LOCATIONS | |||
| Drop # | LAT (d m) |
LON (d m) |
TIME (h:mm) |
| 1 | 26 30 | 84 00 | 0:15 |
| 2 | 26 30 | 86 00 | 0:31 |
| 3 | 26 30 | 88 00 | 0:46 |
| 4 | 26 30 | 90 00 | 1:02 |
| 5 | 24 30 | 91 45 | 1:23 |
| 6 | 24 30 | 89 30 | 1:41 |
| 7 | 24 30 | 87 15 | 1:58 |
| 8 | 24 30 | 85 00 | 2:16 |
| 9 | 22 30 | 86 00 | 2:34 |
| 10 | 22 30 | 88 00 | 2:50 |
| 11 | 22 30 | 90 00 | 3:05 |
| 12 | 22 30 | 92 00 | 3:21 |
| 13 | 20 30 | 91 00 | 3:39 |
| 14 | 20 30 | 93 00 | 3:55 |
| 15 | 18 35 | 93 00 | 4:11 |
| 16 | 18 35 | 95 00 | 4:27 |
| 17 | 20 30 | 95 00 | 4:42 |
| 18 | 21 00 | 97 00 | 4:58 |
| 19 | 23 00 | 97 00 | 5:15 |
| 20 | 22 30 | 94 30 | 5:35 |
| 21 | 24 30 | 94 00 | 5:52 |
| 22 | 25 00 | 96 00 | 6:08 |
| 23 | 26 50 | 95 30 | 6:23 |
| 24 | 28 42 | 95 00 | 6:39 |
| 25 | 28 35 | 92 30 | 6:58 |
| 26 | 28 30 | 90 00 | 7:17 |
| 27 | 29 00 | 88 00 | 7:33 |
| 28 | 29 00 | 86 00 | 7:49 y |
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