As Tropical Storm Tomas continues to reorganize south of Hispaniola and Jamaica (seen in upper left and right of image outlined in black lines) a NOAA P-3 mission collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in improving our understanding of tropical cyclone intensification, as well as for initializing and evaluating model guidance. Included here you will […]
OPERATIONS NOAA P-3s Friday November 5 NOAA-43: Down day NOAA-42: Cancelled. Saturday November 6 NOAA-43: Scheduled for a tasked mission in TS Tomas, takeoff will be at 8:00 UTC (4:00 AM local) from St. Croix, landing in MacDill AFB/Tampa around 12:30 pm local. NOAA-42: Scheduled for a tasked mission in TS Tomas, takeoff at 20:00 […]
As Tropical Storm Tomas continues to reorganize southwest of Hispaniola a NOAA P-3 mission collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in improving our understanding of tropical cyclone intensification, as well as for initializing and evaluating model guidance. Included here you will see images of the horizontal winds within about 150 km of the center of […]
As Tropical Storm Tomas reorganized south of Hispaniola a NOAA P-3 mission collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in improving our understanding of tropical cyclone intensification, as well as for initializing and evaluating model guidance. Included here you will see images of the horizontal winds within about 150 km of the center of the disturbance […]
OPERATIONS NOAA P-3s Thursday November 4 NOAA-43: flew a tasked mission in T.S. Tomas, takeoff was at 8:15 UTC (4:15 AM local) from MacDill AFB/Tampa, landing in St. Croix around 11:30 pm local. Thursday November 4 NOAA-42: Scheduled for a tasked mission in T.S. Tomas, takeoff at 20:00 UTC (4:00 PM local) from St Croix, landing […]
OPERATIONS NOAA P-3s Wednesday November 3 NOAA-42: Scheduled for a tasked mission in TD Tomas, scheduled takeoff at 20:00 UTC (4:00 PM local) from MacDill AFB/Tampa, landing at St Croix. Thursday November 4 NOAA-43: N43 is tentatively scheduled for a tasked mission in TD Tomas, takeoff at 8:00 UTC (4:00 AM local) from MacDill AFB/Tampa, […]
OPERATIONS NOAA P-3s Wednesday November 3 NOAA-42: Scheduled for a research mission in T.S. Tomas, scheduled takeoff at 20:00 UTC (4:00 PM local) from MacDill AFB/Tampa, landing at St Croix. Thursday November 4 NOAA-43: N43 is scheduled for a research mission in T.S. Tomas, takeoff at 8:00 UTC (4:00 AM local) from MacDill AFB/Tampa, landing […]
Slides from the debrief are available at: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/meetings/2010/HFP/Richard_debrief.ppt
H*Wind surface wind analyses are available for Hurricane Tomas here. Check the link for updates.
This paper can be accessed at http://www.agu.org/journals/jd/jd1020/2009JD012830/2009JD012830.pdf
