NOAA’s P-3 hurricane hunter aircraft will fly a Tail Doppler Radar (TDR) operational mission into Tropical Storm Kate. The P3 will depart at 2:00AM local time from MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL and fly a seven hour mission. This flight is operationally tasked by NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center (EMC). This means that EMC has requested this flight into […]
OPERATIONS Monday, 9 November 2015 NOAA43: Is scheduled to fly an operationally tasked reconnaissance mission into Tropical Storm Kate. This means that the National Hurricane Center is requesting this flight. Take off is scheduled for 1900 UTC (2PM Eastern) from MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, FL. No HRD scientists will be on this flight. G-IV: No flights […]
On November 4, 1935, a hurricane slammed into Miami, Florida from an unexpected quarter. The storm moved in from the northeast, unusual in most cases and the only November hurricane to strike Miami from that direction. It was dubbed the “Yankee” hurricane because it came from the north, as many “snowbirds” did at that time […]
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As Hurricane Patricia continued its rapid intensification 135 km southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico a NOAA P-3 mission collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. This P-3 mission coincided with a WB-57 TCI mission into Patricia. The figure below depicts the aircraft flight track (P-3: red line; WB-57: blue line) superposed […]
In the early morning hours of October 24, 2005, Hurricane Wilma came ashore on Florida’s Gulf coast. The storm had set records and then ravaged the Yucatan Peninsula prior to this final landfall, but it still had plenty of power left to inflict great damage on southern Florida. The 2005 hurricane season was already one […]
As Hurricane Patricia intensified rapidly 400 km south of Manzanillo, Mexico a NOAA P-3 mission collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance and a Stepped-Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR) high-incidence angle module 75-80 km to the northwest of the storm center to compare with the HIRAD measurements from the WB-57. This […]
OPERATIONS Friday, 23 October 2015 NOAA43: Is flying an NHC operationally tasked reconnaissance mission into Hurricane Patricia. Take off was around 1430 UTC (10:30 AM Eastern) from Harlingen, TX. This means that the National Hurricane Center has requested this flight to collect data in Patricia. No HRD scientists will be on this flight. ……………………………………………………………………. For the latest information […]
As Tropical Storm Patricia was 400 km south of Acapulco, Mexico a NOAA P-3 mission collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. This P-3 mission coincided with a WB-57 TCI mission into Patricia. The figure below depicts the aircraft flight track (P-3: red line; WB-57: blue line) superposed on visible […]
