Mission Summary
20181009H2 Aircraft 42RF
Hurricane Michael (AL14)
Reconnaissance/COYOTE test

Aircraft Crew (42RF)
Aircraft CommanderScott Price
Co-pilotRobert Mitchell
Co-pilotJohn Rossi
Co-pilotDavid Keith
NavigatorPete Freeman
flight engineerKen Heystek
flight engineerMike Sanchez
Flight DirectorMike Holmes
System EngineerJoe Greene
Radar TechnicianMike Mascaro
Dropsonde OperatorMike McAlister

Scientific Crew (42RF)
LPSKelly RyanHRD
RadarEvan KalinaHRD
DropsondeStan GoldenbergHRD
COYOTEJoe CioneHRD
COYOTEAlex FeistRaytheon
IWRAPJoe SaapNESDIS
AXBTJosh WadlerUMiami
GuestMike BlackHRD

Scientific Crew (Ground)
RadarHRD


Proposed NOAA 42 track

Final flight track

Mission Plan :

NOAA 42RF (N42) will fly an NHC-tasked reconnaissance and COYOTE test flight into Hurricane Michael.

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Linder-Lakeland, FL 20:11 UTC Linder-Lakeland, FL 05:33 UTC
Penetrations 7

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


Page last updated May 23, 2019
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