Mission Summary
20181008H1 Aircraft 42RF
Hurricane Michael (AL14)
TDR and Ocean Survey

Aircraft Crew (42RF)
Aircraft CommanderScott Price
Co-pilotRobert Mitchell
NavigatorPete Freeman
Flight EngineerKen Heystek
Flight EngineerMike Sanchez
Flight DirectorMike Holmes
System EngineerJoe Greene
Radar TechnicianMike Mascaro
Radar TechnicianBobby Peek
Dropsonde OperatorMike McAlister
Dropsonde OperatorDavid Keith

Scientific Crew (42RF)
LPSKelly RyanHRD
RadarJoe CioneHRD
DropsondeJosh WadlerUMiami
IWRAPJoe SappNESDIS
ObserverStepahie StevensonNHC

Scientific Crew (Ground)
RadarHRD


Proposed NOAA 42 track

Final flight track

Mission Plan :

NOAA 42RF (N42) will fly an EMC-tasked TDR missions into Hurricane Michael with a pre-storm Ocean Survey over the Gulf of Mexico.

HURRICANE SYNOPTIC SURVEILLANCE MISSION PLAN: Michael
Prepared by the Hurricane Research Division
October 08, 2018 2:28:18 PM
Aircraft: N42RF
Proposed takeoff: 08/2000Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON Rad/Azm Time
deg min deg min nmi/deg hr:min
1 27 0086 00 0:42
2I26 4586 23 0:49
3I26 3086 45 0:55
4I26 1587 08 1:02
5I26 0087 30 1:09
6I25 4587 53 1:15
7I25 3088 15 1:22
8I25 1588 38 1:29
9 25 0089 00 1:36
10I25 0088 21 1:46
11I25 0087 43 1:55
12I25 0087 04 2:04
13I25 0086 26 2:13
14I25 0085 47 2:23
15I25 0085 09 2:32
16 25 0084 30 2:42
17S23 4886 00 90/3603:10
18S20 4886 00 90/1803:56
19S21 3384 37 90/1204:19
20S23 0387 24 90/3005:05
21S21 3387 23 90/2405:28
22S23 0384 36 90/0606:14

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Linder-Lakeland, FL 20:01 UTC Linder-Lakeland, FL 02:49 UTC
Penetrations 3

18 dropsondes, 1 bad. 27 AXBTs, 3 bad.

Problems :


Mission Data :


Flight track with winds

Timeseries wind, SFMR wind, rain rate, altitude and pressure plots


Flight track

Temperature and Moisture

Wind and Atlitude

Flight Director's log | Flight Director's manifest | NetCDF data | serial data | One second data
Lead Scientist's log | Radar Scientist's log | Dropsonde Scientist's log | AVAPS log | AXBT Scientist's log | AXBT log


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