Mission Summary
20020930I Aircraft 43RF
SST/Inner core mission into of Hurricane Lili

Scientific Crew (43RF)
Lead scientistJoe Cione
Radar scientistJohn Gamache
AXBT scientistsEric Uhlhorn
SRA scientistEd Walsh (NASA)
AXBT scientistTom Cook (RSMAS)
AXBT scientistScott Guhin (RSMAS)


Mission Briefing:

NOAA N43RF flew an SST/Inner core verification experiment into Hurricane Lili. It departed MacDill AFB at 1 PM and recovered at MacDill AFB at 9:35 PM.


Mission Synopsis


Mission Data

One minute listing

Flight Data


Flight track detail

Temperature and Moisture

Wind and Atlitude

Flight track

Flight track ferry in

Flight track ferry out

PDF plots of dropsonde data

20020930I1 Major Turn Points

Time (UTC) Lat (N) Lon(W)
18:0524.6781.10
18:3822.0481.49
18:5421.1082.44
19:1520.9984.07
20:0520.0181.01
20:2020.1879.97
20:2820.7579.82
20:4320.9981.04
20:5820.2080.59
21:1420.6581.45
21:4718.7382.56
22:2620.4280.81
23:1419.0180.74
23:2319.0580.10
23:4120.2779.50
24:0220.6181.04
24:1521.4881.46
24:4824.2481.22


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