NOAA’s G-IV hurricane hunter jet is preparing for a research Tail Doppler Radar (TDR) mission around Joaquin. The proposed flight track is shown below. They will depart at 1:30PM local time from MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, FL and fly a seven-hour mission. The goal of this flight is to collect data around Tropical Storm Joaquin. The G-IV will collect […]
OPERATIONS Tuesday, 29 Sept. 2015 G-IV: Is scheduled to fly a research Tail Doppler Radar (TDR) mission around Tropical Storm Joaquin. Take off is scheduled for 1730 UTC (1:30PM) to and from MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL. No HRD scientists will be on this flight. NOAA43: Is down for maintenance. Wednesday, 30 Sept. 2015 G-IV: Is […]
Early on the morning of September 29, 1915, a major hurricane struck Grand Isle, LA, causing wide-spread damage throughout New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta region. The storm was first detected when it passed through the Windward Islands on the evening of Sept. 21st. The US Weather Bureau (USWB) was able to track the storms […]
On September 27, 1985, Hurricane Gloria swept over the Outer Banks then rushed across Long Island, New England, and Canada. It was the first significant hurricane to hit New England in twenty-five years and brought heavy rains and high winds to the Mid-Atlantic states as well. Gloria began as a tropical depression over the Cape […]
Alex presented a seminar “A cloud-scale lightning data assimilation technique implemented within the WRF-ARW model: Proof of concept and real-time evaluation” Abstract: To improve the analysis and short-term forecasts of convection, a new technique for assimilating total lightning data into the WRF-ARW model at cloud-resolving scales has been developed and evaluated over a large number […]
This year, real-time radar imagery from the P3’s lower-fuselage radars were transmitted to the ground in real time for the first time, so that forecasters at the National Hurricane Center could see the structure of the storms far away from land. ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/meetings/2015/HFP/LF_radar_earthrel/20150821Iz_ea_ref.mp4 is an animation of all the P3 flights into Hurricane Danny and Tropical […]
On the morning of September 26, 1955, a Navy Hurricane Hunter plane carrying out routine reconnaissance of Hurricane Janet in the Caribbean lost contact with its base. Subsequent search efforts turned up no sign of the plane or crew. Nine crewmen and two Canadian reporters on the plane were lost but the details of the […]
On September 24, 2010, Tropical Storm Matthew made landfall on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. A weak tropical storm, Matthew’s maximum sustained winds never exceeded 60 mph (95 km/hr). But it brought torrential rains to Central America and Mexico and caused 126 deaths and US$170 million in damage. Matthew had formed from a disturbance in […]
On the morning of September 23, 1975, Hurricane Eloise made landfall on the Florida panhandle. A major hurricane as it struck the shore, it was the most destructive Atlantic hurricane that year. Eloise formed from an African Easterly Wave, but did not develop a closed circulation until it had crossed more than halfway across the […]
Early on the morning of September 24, 2005, Major Hurricane Rita came ashore near the Texas/Louisiana border. In the midst of the very active 2005 hurricane season, Rita caused considerable panic as it approached the coast, with scenes of destruction from Hurricane Katrina still playing on TV news programs. It left behind a swath of […]
