Mission Summary
20120825N2 Aircraft 49RF
Synoptic Surveillance Mission Tropical Storm Isaac

Aircraft Crew (49RF)
Aircraft CommanderKristie Twining
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

Mission Plan :

NOAA 49RF will fly an NHC-tasked Synoptic Surveillancd mission around Tropical Storm Isaac. 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 24, 2012 9:43:55 AM
Aircraft: N49RF
Altitude: FL410-450
Proposed takeoff: 25/1730Z
DROP LOCATIONS
# LAT LON TIME
deg min deg min hh:mm
127 00-79 000:28
228 00-78 000:39
327 00-77 000:50
428 00-76 001:02
527 00-75 001:13
626 00-76 001:24
726 00-78 001:40
824 09-78 301:55
924 21-77 152:05
1023 51-75 562:16
1122 48-75 062:27
1221 30-74 482:38
1322 00-73 002:53
1424 00-74 003:11
1525 00-75 003:22
1625 00-73 003:38
1726 00-74 003:49
1827 00-73 004:00
1926 00-72 004:12
2025 00-71 004:23
2124 00-72 004:34
2223 00-71 004:46
2321 00-71 005:02
2420 17-72 595:19
2519 29-75 045:37
2619 09-75 565:44
2718 48-77 005:53
2818 35-78 286:05
2919 09-79 406:15
3020 12-80 306:26
3120 58-80 506:33
3223 51-79 406:58
3323 33-80 337:05
3424 00-83 007:25
3525 30-84 007:40
3627 00-85 007:54

Mission Summary :

Problems :


Mission Data :

Flight Dir log | Error Summary | 1 sec data | NetCDF file


Flight track

Temperature and Moisture

Wind and Atlitude


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