Mission Summary
20170824N2 Aircraft 49RF
Tropical Storm Harvey

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

Mission Plan :


Proposed NOAA 49 track

Actual NOAA 49 track

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 23, 2017 3:46:40 PM
Aircraft: N49RF
Proposed takeoff: 24/1730Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON Time
deg min deg min hr:min
1 28 14 -80 13 0:13
2 28 30 -78 30 0:27
3 26 30 -78 30 0:43
4 25 15 -79 00 0:54
5 24 00 -79 30 1:05
6 24 15 -81 30 1:21
7 24 30 -83 30 1:37
8 23 30 -84 30 1:48
9 24 30 -86 00 2:02
10 24 00 -87 30 2:15
11 24 00 -89 00 2:26
12 22 30 -89 00 2:39
13 22 30 -90 30 2:50
14 24 00 -90 30 3:03
15 23 54 -92 12 3:16
16 22 51 -93 02 3:27
17 22 17 -94 14 3:37
18 22 17 -95 34 3:48
19 22 51 -96 46 3:58
20 23 53 -97 30 4:09
21 25 18 -96 51 4:21
22 26 55 -96 51 4:34
23 28 07 -95 34 4:48
24 28 07 -94 14 4:59
25 27 33 -93 02 5:09
26 26 30 -92 12 5:20
27 25 12 -91 54 5:31
28 26 00 -90 30 5:43
29 28 00 -90 30 5:60
30 28 00 -89 00 6:11
31 26 00 -89 00 6:28
32 26 00 -87 30 6:39
33 28 00 -87 30 6:56
34 28 00 -86 00 7:07
35 26 30 -86 00 7:19
36 27 00 -84 30 7:32
37 26 00 -83 30 7:43
38 26 07 -82 02 7:54

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Lakeland-Linder, FL17:29 UTC Lakeland-Linder, FL01:41 UTC

37 drops, all good.

Problems :


Mission Data :


Flight track

Temperature and Moisture

Wind and Atlitude

Flight Director's manifest | Drop logs | NetCDF data | One second data


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