Mission Summary
20170920N1 Aircraft 49RF
Hurricane Maria (AL15)
Synoptic Surveillance

Aircraft Crew (49RF)
Aircraft CommanderDoug MacIntyre
Co-pilotFritzler
Flight DirectorRich Henning
Flight DirectorBrian Belson
System EngineerJoe Greene
Data TechnicianGabe Defeo
Dropsonde OperatorUnderwood
Dropsonde OperatorJames Warnecke


Original Proposed NOAA 49 track

Actual Synoptic Surveillance NOAA 49 track

Mission Plan :

NOAA 49RF (N49) will fly a synoptic surveillance mission around Hurricane Maria.

HURRICANE SYNOPTIC SURVEILLANCE MISSION PLAN: MARIA
Prepared by the National Hurricane Center
September 19, 2017 3:29:18 PM
Aircraft: N49RF
Proposed takeoff: 20/1730Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON Time
deg min deg min hr:min
1 14 10 -60 43 0:13
2 15 12 -62 00 0:27
3 16 23 -63 10 0:40
4 17 30 -64 24 0:54
5 16 27 -65 14 1:05
6 15 53 -66 26 1:15
7 15 53 -67 46 1:26
8 16 27 -68 58 1:37
9 17 30 -72 00 2:02
10 17 30 -73 30 2:14
11 17 30 -75 00 2:26
12 20 00 -74 00 2:48
13 22 00 -74 00 3:05
14 24 00 -74 00 3:21
15 26 00 -74 00 3:37
16 25 00 -71 00 4:02
17 23 00 -71 00 4:18
18 21 00 -71 00 4:35
19 20 06 -69 48 4:47
20 21 09 -68 58 4:58
21 21 43 -67 46 5:08
22 24 00 -69 00 5:29
23 26 00 -69 00 5:46
24 26 00 -66 00 6:09
25 24 00 -66 00 6:25
26 21 43 -66 26 6:44
27 21 09 -65 14 6:55
28 20 06 -64 24 7:06
29 18 48 -64 06 7:16

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Barbados, BWI 17:39 UTC Barbados, BWI 01:53 UTC

Problems :


Mission Data :

Flight Director's log | Flight Director's manifest | NetCDF data | serial data | 1 second data


Flight track

Temperature and Moisture

Wind and Atlitude


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