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Table 1
Locations of University 10 m meteorological tower deployments.
Tower location Latitude (N)
(deg min) 		Longitude (W)
(deg min) 		University
Southport Airport 33 55 78 15 Texas Tech
Wilmington Airport 3416 7755 Texas Tech
Topsail Beach 3423 7739 University of Oklahoma
tower and DOW
Mobile mesonets operated in the Cape Fear area of southeastern North Carolina.

Table 2
Center fixes for Floyd from N43RF and the Air Force (AFRES)
on 15-16 September
Time
(UTC) 		Latitude (N)
(deg min) 		Longitude (W)
(deg min) 		Aircraft
2059 31 20 78 56 N43RF, 950 mb
2302 31 49 78 46 AFRES, 950 mb
2340 32 01 78 41 N43RF
0109 32 16 78 34 N43RF, 951 mb
0229 32 44 78 08 N43RF
0343 33 04 78 18 N43RF
* Landfall occurred over Bald Head Island at Cape Fear.
Sea level pressures were provided in some eye drops. N43RF did not get a center fix on the second pass through the center (~2225 UTC).

Table 3
Buoy, C-MAN, and WSR-88D locations for the 199909151 Floyd flight.
Site ID Latitude
(°N) 		Longitude
(°W) 		Location
41001 34.68 72.64 E. HATTERAS
41002 32.28 75.20 S. HATTERAS
41004 32.51 79.10 EDISTO
41009 28.50 80.18 CANAVERAL
41010 28.89 78.55 CANAVERAL EAST
DSLN7 35.15 75.30 Diamond Shoals Light, NC
CLKN7 34.62 76.52 Cape Lookout, NC
FPSN7 33.49 77.59 Frying Pan Shoals, NC
FBIS1 32.68 79.89 Folly Island, SC
KLTX 33.9894 78.4289 Wilmington, NC WSR-88D
KMHX 34.7761 76.8761 Moorehead City, NC WSR-88D
KCLX 32.6555 81.0422 Charleston, SC WSR-88D
Table 4
Splash locations of sondes transmitted during the 199909151 Floyd mission.
# Sonde IDTime
(UTC) 		Latitude
(°N) 		Longitude
(°W) 		Comments
1 992435213 2029 30.03 80.59 LST WND 010 MBL WND 32064
2 992455375 2053 30.97 79.10 LST WND 010 MBL WND 31077 EYEWALL 225
3 992435029 2058 31.35 78.92 LST WND 010 MBL WND 00000 EYE SST 281
4 992455377 2103 31.62 78.72 LST WND 010 MBL WND 10583 EYEWALL 045 SST 279
5 992435021 2114 32.09 78.15 MBL WND 12072 LSTWNDOlO RAINBAND SST 287
6 992455378 2129 32.82 77.27 MBL WND 13057 LST WND 013 RAINBAND
7 992435141 2147 32.68 78.90 LST WND 010 MBL WND 08554 RAINBAND
8 992435017 2201 32.49 80.16 LST WND 010 RAINBAND
9 992455373 2220 31.55 79.07 LST WND 010 MBL WND 34592 EYEWALL 270 SST 275
10 992435030 2230 31.16 78.33 LST WND 011 MBL WND 22598 EYEWALL 135
11 992435060 2251 30.22 77.14 LST WND 010 MBL WND 20568 SST 265
12 992435142 2328 31.97 77.80 LST WND 010 MBL WND 15099 EYEWALL 090 SST 284
13 992435145 2311 31.81 76.47 LST WND OlO MBLWND 16566 SST 283
14 992435144 2344 32.01 79.06 LST WND 010 MBL WND 36087 EYEWALL 270 SST 283
15 992435212 2349 32.06 79.42 LST WND 010 RAINBAND SST 275
16 992435146 0007 31.87 80.77 LST WND 010 MBL WND 35054
17 991515069 0108 32.27 78.57 LST WND 010 MBL WND 01502 EYE
18 992455379 0039 30.27 78.37 LST WND 010 MBL WND 25545
20 990838041 0053 31.25 78.38 LST WND 010 MBL WND 27569 SST 277
21 991515070 0102 31.89 78.38 LST WND 048 MBL WND 25089 EYEWALL 180
22 984925203 0114 32.64 78.67 EYEWALL 315LST WND 010
23 991845324 0116 32.77 78.66 LST WND 010 MBL WND 05582 EYEWALL 315 SST 26
24 991845309 0134 33.82 78.58 MBL WND 06041 LST WND 010
25 991845302 0146 33.12 79.20 MBL WND 35568 LST WND 010 RAINBAND
26 990838039 0154 32.69 79.85 MBL WND 34073 RAINBAND
27 991845323 0225 32.54 78.66 MBL WND 31586 LST WND 028 EYEWALL 270
28 991845308 0234 33.04 78.23 MBL WND 09597 LST WND 014 EYEWALL 000
29 991435052 0245 33.49 77.64 MBL WND 12071 LST WND 013 RAINBAND
30 991845166 0306 34.69 76.84 MBL WND 12549 LST WND 010
31 991218016 0336 33.43 78.41 MBL WND 06076 EYEWALL 315
32 991845310 0338 33.30 78.42 MBL WND 03589 EYEWALL 315

Table 5
AXBT drops from 43
flight 15:48 to 01:10 Thurs a.m. (local time)
Pete Davies' incomplete, unscientific, and frankly incompetent record thereof.
BT# Temperature
°C 		Comments
1 Missingdud
2 28.177.5 meters
3 27.875 meters, maybe more
4 28.745 meters, maybe more
5 Missingdud
6 26.5and a weird looking graph 90 meters with two big spikes in it
7 28.430 meters
8 22.6rapid drop-off after 10 seconds. Capsized/sunk?
9Missing
10Missing
11 Missingrealized here I'd missed a few
12 26.490 meters
13 28.360 meters (MB had 28.5°C/80 meters on this one)
14 28.090 meters
15 28.390 meters
16 28.330 meters
17 27.6 180 meters? Chris Landsea: "Is it floating?"
Mike Black: "Write it down. It doesn't make sense."
18 27.175 meters
19 Missingdud
20 27.790 meters
21 MissingI think I missed one .
22 25.8appears to be floating again.
Frank Marks: "The mixed layer depth is infinity."

Notes

  1. I missed a few, either because they were duds, or because I was trying to write notes on something else at the drop point. Ergo after the first eight I recorded I learned from Barry D that the next drop was #12. So my drop #'s aren't all correct.
  2. I started off trying to be over-precise, but rapidly realized that multiplying 55 by 1.5 was too challenging for me to do it too often. Also Mike Black was consistently estimating a shade higher mixed layer depths than me, & as I assumed a fair likelihood that he knew what he was doing better than I did, after that I settled for rounder numbers. With that in mind ...

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