On the night of October 3, 1963, Hurricane Flora smashed into the southern coast of Haiti. It raked the country with 145 mph (230 km/hr) winds and dumped tremendous downpours on its mountains. It would become one of the deadliest and wettest Atlantic hurricanes on record. Flora began as an African easterly wave, moving over […]
Read about Heather, her research, and her flying into hurricanes at https://news.fsu.edu/news/science-technology/2018/10/01/fsu-hurricane-hunter-students-storms-where-they-happen-10000-feet-up/.
On the morning of October 2, 1893, a severe hurricane came roaring across the Louisiana coast near the village of Chenière Caminada, all but wiping the town flat and killing over half the population. Like many late season hurricanes, this storm formed from a disturbance in the western Caribbean Sea around Sept. 27th. By the […]
Mr. Forde presented a seminar titled “Identification of Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclones in Proximity to Significant Dry Air Events in Total Precipitable Water Imagery (1987-2015)”. ABSTRACT: A study analyzing total precipitable water (TPW) data from 1987-2015, has identified 126 Atlantic basin TCs that were in proximity to significant dry air events (SDAEs) including Saharan Air […]
Unfortunately the NOAA P-3 was not able to complete a 4th and final mission into developing Invest 96E today. Invest 96E completed its genesis phase as it is now Tropical Storm Sergio. We were, however, able to complete three important, unique genesis stage missions with the P-3 over the past fews days, and the data […]
The NOAA P-3 is continuing HRD research-tasked missions out of Liberia, Costa Rica, in support of the Genesis Stage Experiment objectives of the Hurricane Field Program – Intensity Forecasting Experiment. Missions are focusing on the potential development of a disturbance in the East Pacific near 96W. Thursday, September 27, 2018 NOAA42: The P-3 will fly […]
HRD has tasked the NOAA P-3 for tropical cyclone genesis research missions in the East Pacific, to/from Liberia, Costa Rica, beginning today. Wednesday, September 26, 2018 NOAA42: The P-3 will fly a research mission into the East Pacific to survey a potential genesis region, including the Papagayo Gap wind flow. Takeoff from Liberia, Costa Rica, […]
Summary: The Stepped-Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR) is an instrument flown on the NOAA and Air Force Hurricane Hunter aircraft that measures surface wind speed and how much rain is falling over the ocean in tropical cyclones. Historically, the SFMR measurements have only been used when the aircraft is not turning or going up or down […]
HRD is tasking the NOAA P-3 for tropical cyclone genesis research missions in the East Pacific, to/from Liberia, Costa Rica, beginning on Wednesday. The P-3 will ferry to C. R. today, and missions are expected to continue through Saturday. The goal is to capture processes related to the formation, or non-formation, of a tropical cyclone […]
You can read the paper at https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/MWR-D-18-0065.1.
