Mission Summary
20181008N1 Aircraft 49RF
Hurricane Michael (AL14)
Synoptic Surv.

Aircraft Crew (49RF)
Aircraft CommanderDavid Cowan
Co-pilotBrian Fritzler
Flight DirectorRich Henning
Flight DirectorJack Parrish
System EngineerAkshar Patel
Data TechnicianGabe Defeo
Dropsonde OperatorJorge Delgado
Dropsonde OperatorJames Warnecke

Scientific Crew (49RF)
None


Proposed NOAA 49 track

Mission Plan :

NOAA 49RF (N49) will conduct an NHC-tasked Synoptic surveillance missions around Hurricane Michael.

HURRICANE SYNOPTIC SURVEILLANCE MISSION PLAN: Michael
Prepared by the National Hurricane Center
October 07, 2018 4:45:19 PM
Aircraft: N49RF
Proposed takeoff: 08/1730Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON Time
deg min deg min hr:min
1 28 42 -83 480:09
2 27 42 -84 480:20
3 29 12 -85 180:33
4 28 12 -86 180:44
5 29 42 -86 480:57
6 28 12 -87 481:12
7 27 12 -88 481:23
8 28 42 -89 181:36
9 28 59 -90 501:48
10 28 42 -92 181:59
11 27 30 -94 002:15
12 26 12 -94 002:26
13 25 00 -94 002:36
14 25 00 -92 152:50
15 26 12 -92 152:59
16 27 30 -92 153:10
17 27 30 -90 303:24
18 26 12 -90 303:34
19 25 00 -90 303:44
20 23 42 -91 303:57
21 22 42 -92 184:07
22 21 27 -92 184:18
23 20 48 -90 424:31
24 22 03 -89 304:45
25 23 12 -89 484:55
26 24 30 -89 305:06
27 25 33 -88 395:17
28 26 06 -87 265:27
29 26 06 -86 065:38
30 25 33 -84 545:48
31 24 30 -84 065:59
32 23 18 -83 486:09
33 21 12 -85 306:30
34 24 42 -82 247:08
35 26 00 -83 307:22
36 27 30 -83 307:34

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Linder-Lakeland, FL 17:39 UTC Linder-Lakeland, FL 01:44 UTC
Dropsondes 47 Dropped 38 good 9 bad

Problems :


Mission Data :


Flight track

Temperature and Moisture

Wind and Atlitude

Flight Director's log | Flight Director's manifest | NetCDF data | 1 second data
AVAPS log | Drop log


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