Mission Summary
20030814N1 Aircraft 49RF
Synoptic Surveillance flight
around Tropical Storm Erika 2003
| Sonde Scientist | Jason Dunion |
| Sonde Scientist | Jason Dunion |
The G-IV jet, with scientific crew of Jason Dunion conducted an NHC-tasked synoptic surveillance mission around Erika at the nominal time of 00 UTC/Aug 15. Take-off was at 1:30 PM EDT from MacDill AFB and landed at 9:15 PM EDT at MacDill AFB.
Mission Summary :
Problems :
| DROP LOCATIONS | |||
| Drop # | LAT (d m) |
LON (d m) |
TIME (h:mm) |
| 1 | 27 02 | 86 18 | 0:29 |
| 2 | 25 02 | 87 09 | 0:47 |
| 3 | 23 21 | 86 38 | 1:01 |
| 4 | 21 15 | 84 30 | 1:26 |
| 5 | 19 30 | 85 40 | 1:43 |
| 6 | 17 45 | 86 49 | 2:00 |
| 7 | 16 00 | 88 00 | 2:17 |
| 8 | 18 45 | 87 15 | 2:40 |
| 9 | 21 30 | 86 30 | 3:03 |
| 10 | 22 15 | 88 15 | 3:18 |
| 11 | 23 00 | 90 00 | 3:33 |
| 12 | 25 30 | 90 00 | 3:54 |
| 13 | 25 30 | 92 00 | 4:09 |
| 14 | 25 30 | 94 00 | 4:25 |
| 15 | 23 00 | 95 00 | 4:47 |
| 16 | 23 00 | 97 30 | 5:07 |
| 17 | 25 30 | 96 45 | 5:28 |
| 18 | 28 00 | 96 00 | 5:49 |
| 19 | 28 00 | 93 30 | 6:08 |
| 20 | 28 00 | 91 00 | 6:27 |
| 21 | 28 00 | 88 30 | 6:47 |
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