Mission Summary
20030913N1 Aircraft 49RF
Synoptic surveillance flight around Hurricane Isabel
| Sonde Scientist | Jason Dunion |
| Sonde Scientist | Jason Dunion |
The G-IV jet, with scientific crew of Jason Dunion departed from MacDill AFB, FL at 1:30 PM for an NHC-tasked synoptic surveillance mission and recovered at St. Croix, USVI around 9 PM AST.
Problems :
| DROP LOCATIONS | |||
| Drop # | LAT (d m) |
LON (d m) |
TIME (h:mm) |
| 1 | 30 00 | 78 00 | 0:38 |
| 2 | 31 15 | 76 00 | 0:57 |
| 3 | 29 41 | 74 15 | 1:15 |
| 4 | 28 07 | 72 30 | 1:34 |
| 5 | 26 33 | 70 45 | 1:52 |
| 6 | 25 00 | 69 00 | 2:11 |
| 7 | 25 45 | 66 22 | 2:32 |
| 8 | 26 57 | 63 30 | 2:56 |
| 9 | 28 45 | 61 30 | 3:18 |
| 10 | 28 45 | 57 30 | 3:48 |
| 11 | 26 30 | 56 30 | 4:08 |
| 12 | 26 07 | 58 33 | 4:25 |
| 13 | 25 45 | 60 37 | 4:41 |
| 14 | 23 12 | 59 35 | 5:03 |
| 15 | 23 35 | 57 32 | 5:20 |
| 16 | 24 00 | 55 30 | 5:36 |
| 17 | 22 00 | 54 45 | 5:54 |
| 18 | 21 00 | 57 30 | 6:17 |
| 19 | 19 15 | 56 15 | 6:34 |
| 20 | 18 30 | 58 30 | 6:53 |
| 21 | 20 38 | 60 38 | 7:17 |
| 22 | 19 26 | 63 30 | 7:42 |
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