Mission Summary
20180908N1 Aircraft 49RF
Hurricane Florence (AL06)
Synoptic Surveillance

Aircraft Crew (49RF)
Aircraft CommanderKristie Twining
Co-pilotRebecca Waddington
Co-pilotBrad Fritzler
Flight DirectorPaul Flaherty
Flight DirectorJack Parrish
System EngineerMike McAllister
Data TechnicianDana Naeher
Dropsonde OperatorJeff Smith
Dropsonde OperatorAkshar Patel

Scientific Crew (49RF)
None


Proposed NOAA 49 track

Mission Plan :

NOAA 49RF (N49) will fly a NHC-tasked Synoptic Surveillance missions around Hurricane Florence.

HURRICANE SYNOPTIC SURVEILLANCE MISSION PLAN: Florence
National Hurricane Center September 07, 2018 3:00:33 PM
Aircraft: N49RF
Proposed takeoff: 08/1730Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON Time
deg min deg min hr:min
1 30 00 -80 000:27
2 31 00 -78 000:44
3 32 00 -76 001:02
4 32 00 -74 001:17
5 32 00 -72 001:32
6 32 00 -70 001:47
7 31 00 -68 002:04
8 30 00 -66 002:21
9 29 00 -64 002:39
10 28 00 -62 002:56
11 27 00 -60 003:13
12 26 12 -57 483:32
13 27 15 -56 583:42
14 27 49 -55 463:53
15 27 49 -54 264:03
16 27 15 -53 144:13
17 26 12 -52 244:24
18 24 54 -52 064:35
19 23 36 -52 244:46
20 22 33 -53 144:57
21 21 59 -54 265:07
22 21 59 -55 465:18
23 22 33 -56 585:28
24 23 36 -57 485:39
25 24 54 -58 065:50
26 22 37 -58 586:10
27 21 38 -60 086:22
28 20 39 -61 186:34
29 19 40 -62 286:47

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Linder-Lakeland, FL 17:25 UTC St. Croix, USVI 00:54 UTC

Problems :


Mission Data :


Flight track

Temperature and Moisture

Wind and Atlitude

Flight Director's log | NetCDF data | 1 second data } serial data


Page last updated Sept. 07, 2018
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