Mission Summary
20120823N1 Aircraft 49RF
Synoptic Surveillance Mission Tropical Storm Isaac

Aircraft Crew (49RF)
Aircraft CommanderJeff Hagan
Co-pilotNick Toth
Co-pilotJason Mansour
Flight DirectorBarry Damiano
Flight DirectorNick Morgan
Data TechnicianGabe Defeo
Dropsonde OperatorMike Mascaro
Dropsonde OperatorJames Warnecke
EngineerAlan Goldstein
Scientific Crew (49RF)
None


Proposed NOAA 49 track

Proposed USAF track
(only dropsonde portion)

Mission Plan :

NOAA 49RF will fly an NHC-tasked Synoptic Surveillancd mission around the north side of Tropical Storm Isaac. The south side of Issac will be covered by a USAF C-130 after its reconnaissance mission has been accomplished. The G-IV will leave MacDill AFB, FL 1730 UTC and will recover back at MacDill AFB, FL by 0000 UTC the next day.

TROPICAL STORM SYNOPTIC SURVEILLANCE MISSION PLAN: Isaac
Prepared by the
National Hurricane Center
August 22, 2012 2:49:09 PM Aircraft: N49RF
Altitude: FL410-450
Proposed takeoff: 23/1730Z
DROP LOCATIONS
# LAT LON TIME
deg min deg min hh:mm
125 54-78 410:34
227 00-76 000:56
326 00-74 001:14
423 57-74 501:32
524 00-72 301:50
622 39-72 172:01
722 00-70 302:16
822 00-69 002:28
924 00-70 002:46
1026 00-71 003:04
1126 00-69 003:20
1226 00-67 003:35
1324 00-68 003:54
1423 00-66 004:11
1522 00-67 004:23
1621 00-65 004:40
1721 00-63 004:56
1820 00-64 005:08
1919 39-65 565:23
2020 13-67 085:34
2120 13-68 285:44
2219 42-69 385:54
2320 09-70 596:06
2420 55-72 096:17
2521 41-73 186:28
2622 00-75 306:46
2724 45-77 007:11
2824 00-79 307:31

TROPICAL STORM SYNOPTIC SURVEILLANCE MISSION PLAN: Isaac
Prepared by the
National Hurricane Center
August 22, 2012 3:03:02 PM
Aircraft: USAF 30?
DROP LOCATIONS
# LAT LON TIME
deg min deg min hh:mm
117 15-65 000:06
216 00-65 060:20
314 57-65 560:35
414 23-67 080:49
514 23-68 281:04
614 57-69 401:19
716 00-70 301:34
817 18-70 481:49

Mission Summary :

Problems :


Mission Data :

1 sec data | NetCDF file | FDir log | Flight Director's manifest | Error Summary


Flight track

Temperature and Moisture

Wind and Atlitude


Page last updated Aug. 22, 2012
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