NOAA42 will conduct a third EMC-tasked mission into Tropical Storm Humberto on 15 September, departing Lakeland around 5 pm EDT (2100 UTC) and returning there 4.5 hours later. The aircraft will sample Humberto in a butterfly pattern, and possibly gather data during an overpass of the Atmospheric Dynamics Mission Aeolus satellite to help validate its […]
NOAA42 recently completed an EMC-tasked mission into what is now Tropical Storm Humberto. The data from the mission was integral in upgrading the system from a tropical depression. The aircraft will conduct a second such mission on 14 September, departing Lakeland around 5 pm EDT (2100 UTC) and returning there 4.5 hours later. The aircraft […]
NOAA42 is scheduled for an EMC-tasked mission into Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine , takeoff from Lakeland at 1700 EDT (2100 UTC), returning there just about 5 hours later. The goal is to gather Doppler radar and dropwindsonde data for assimilation into numerical models. One-per-day flights are likely to continue until the system is no longer a […]
Summary: During the 2015 North Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Joaquin meandered near the Bahamas. Forecasts ranged from bringing Joaquin inland over the U.S. to it going east of Bermuda, suggesting that Joaquin’s track was very uncertain (Fig. 1). A high-resolution forecast model based on NOAA’s hurricane prediction system, the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast (HWRF) […]
NOAA42 is currently scheduled for three more flights into Hurricane Dorian. If they all go as scheduled, this will total 15 missions into the storm. The first departed about an hour ago from Lakeland. The two future flights will take off at 4am/4pm EDT (0800/2000 UTC) on 5 September. Each will involve multiple passes through […]
The tropics are even more active today, with three tropical cyclones (Hurricane Dorian, Tropical Storm Fernand, and Tropical Depression Eight) spinning in the Atlantic and keeping us busy. NHC has tasked NOAA49 for its final synoptic surveillance missions around Dorian, departing from Lakeland at 0130 EDT (0530 UTC) and recovering there about 8 hours later. The […]
The tropics remain extremely active, with Hurricane Dorian and four other systems in the Atlantic threatening to develop. This is keeping the NOAA Hurricane Field Program very busy indeed. Tomorrow, the first mission will be a synoptic surveillance missions around Dorian, taking off from Lakeland and returning there about 8 hour later. The goal is to […]
We continue to be very busy with Hurricane Dorian as it passes over the northern Bahamas and approaches the southeast U.S. coastline. NOAA42 will start by ferrying back to Lakeland from New Orleans to start another set of two-per-day missions. The plane will take off at 0800 CDT (1300 UTC) for the short trip back. […]
We continue to be very busy with Hurricane Dorian as it approaches the Bahamas and the southeast U.S. coastline. Yesterday, the G-IV conducted a mission with its first all-female three-pilot crew. Congratulations to Capt. Kristie Twining, Cmdr. Rebecca Waddington, and Lt. Lindsey Norman on this milestone. NOAA aircraft will not operate out of Lakeland when […]
We remain very busy with Hurricane Dorian. NOAA42 is currently conducting a NHC- and EMC-tasked reconnaissance flight into Dorian. On their first pass, they found that Dorian was rapidly intensifying and now had a minimum central pressure of 951 mb from dropsonde, and the stepped-frequency microwave radiometer reported surface wind speed of 112 kt […]
