Mission Summary
20170823N1 Aircraft 49RF
Tropical Storm Harvey

Aircraft Crew (49RF)
Aircraft CommanderDoug MacIntyre
Co-pilotDavid Cowan
Flight DirectorJess Williams
Flight DirectorIan Sears
System EngineerJoe Greene
Data TechnicianGabe Defeo
Dropsonde OperatorAnsaruddin Hasan
Dropsonde OperatorJames Warnecke


Proposed NOAA 49 track

Actual NOAA 49 track

Mission Plan :

NOAA 49RF will conduct NHC-tasked Synoptic Surveillance mission on Tropical Storm Harvey in the Gulf of Mexico.

HURRICANE SYNOPTIC SURVEILLANCE MISSION PLAN: HARVEY
Prepared by the National Hurricane Center
August 22, 2017 2:54:11 PM
Aircraft: N49RF
Proposed takeoff: 23/1730Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON Time
deg min deg min hr:min
1 26 00 -84 00 0:23
2 25 00 -86 00 0:40
3 23 00 -86 00 0:56
4 21 30 -85 00 1:11
5 20 00 -84 00 1:26
6 20 00 -85 30 1:38
7 22 00 -88 00 2:04
8 24 00 -88 00 2:20
9 26 00 -88 00 2:37
10 25 31 -89 40 2:50
11 25 03 -91 20 3:04
12 25 03 -91 20 3:04
13 24 00 -90 30 3:15
14 24 00 -90 30 3:15
15 22 42 -90 12 3:25
16 22 42 -90 12 3:25
17 21 24 -90 30 3:36
18 20 21 -91 20 3:47
19 20 21 -91 20 3:47
20 19 47 -92 32 3:58
21 19 47 -92 32 3:58
22 19 47 -93 52 4:08
23 19 47 -93 52 4:08
24 20 21 -95 04 4:19
25 20 21 -95 04 4:19
26 20 03 -96 25 4:30
27 21 24 -95 54 4:42
28 21 24 -95 54 4:42
29 22 42 -96 12 4:53
30 22 42 -96 12 4:53
31 24 00 -95 54 5:04
32 24 00 -95 54 5:04
33 26 00 -96 00 5:20
34 25 03 -95 04 5:31
35 25 03 -95 04 5:31
36 25 37 -93 52 5:41
37 25 37 -93 52 5:41
38 25 37 -92 32 5:52
39 25 37 -92 32 5:52
40 28 00 -95 00 6:19
41 28 00 -93 00 6:34
42 28 00 -91 00 6:50
43 28 00 -89 00 7:05
44 30 00 -88 00 7:23
45 28 00 -87 00 7:41
46 28 00 -85 00 7:56
Mission Summary :

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Flight track

Temperature and Moisture

Wind and Atlitude

Flight Director's Manifest | Drop log | One second data | NetCDF file

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