N49RF HRD GPS Dropwindsonde Scientist Log

Storm Isidore                    Dropwindsonde Scientists Sean White, Hugh Willoughby, Pay-Liam Lin
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Flight ID 020919N2               Flight Director Paul Flaherty                                 Takeoff from MACDILL  at  ~1730   UTC
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Mission ID 1310A ISIDORE         AVAPS Operators Dave Brogan, Dale Carpenter                   Recovery  at MACDILL  at  ~0200   UTC
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| Drop    Sonde     Time    Lat    Lon  Surface   Wind closet       DLM        Comments                                            |
|  #      ID #      (UTC)   (°N)  (°W) Pressure   to surface        wind                                                           |
|                                        (mb)     dir/spd   hgt     (kt)                                                           |
|                                                 (kt)      (m)                                                                    |
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|  1    003825288  182134  22.99  78.98 1010.2    110°  20  129   125°  19     Thin cirrus and low broken Stratocum; no winds from |
|                                                                              784 and 894 mb                                      |
|  2    003825030  184245  21.55  76.46 1010.4    101°  20    5   145°  09     Scattered low Cu; P bias -2.5 mb                    |
|  3    003825287  190438  22.94  74.00 1012.0    117°  15    5   --------                                                         |
|  4    021925046  191758  21.94  72.54 1011.5     65°  18    5    10°  10     P bias -2.4 mb                                      |
|  5    003825249  193359  20.12  73.21 ------    -------------   --------     Stratus undercast; delayed launch detect 5 s; ends  |
|                                                                              at 685 mb                                           |
|  6    021735245  195303  19.44  75.39 1010.2    212°  21  ---   --------     Clear below                                         |
|  7    021925226  201043  17.47  74.06 1010.7     93°  12    7    80°  10     Telemetry completely lost from 190 to 238 mb        |
|  8    021925005  202238  16.25  74.99 1010.0     50°  05    4   125°  07                                                         |
|  9    003825229  203501  15.07  76.06 1010.0    129°  06    8   130°  07     Undercast                                           |
|  10   021925222  205448  16.24  77.99 1009.1    148°  10    5   180°  09     Undercast                                           |
|  11   003825262  211502  17.45  80.01 1007.9    156°  18    7   165°  19     Stratus to just below f/l                           |
|  12   021925252  213238  16.60  82.06 ------    -------------   --------     In cloud; bad T, no RH                              |
|  12A  021925043  213406  16.73  82.18 1006.8    204°  15    7   235°  08     In cloud; weak telemetry and only a couple of winds |
|                                                                              659-708 mb                                          |
|  13   004255038  214453  17.75  83.00 1005.6    230°  17    8   270°  13     In cloud; late winds                                |
|  14   021925134  215739  18.78  84.04 1004.9    315°  15    5   315°  13     In cloud; P bias -2.8 mb                            |
|  15   003825291  221655  16.52  84.58 1005.3    315°  06    8   280°  05     In cloud; late winds; dry                           |
|  16   000345655  223136  16.63  86.45 1005.3    360°  03    8   305°  03     In cloud                                            |
|  17   021925129  224939  18.75  86.00 1005.3    345°  07    5   340°  05     In cloud                                            |
|  18   003825289  230901  21.00  85.55 1004.4    360°  13    4    30°  10     In cloud                                            |
|  19   003825245  233118  23.00  87.63 1006.9     54°  14    8   115°  08     Scattered Cu, some Cb                               |
|  20   021925221  234852  23.08  89.95 1007.5     80°  10    7   155°  11     Less than 60% Cu                                    |
|  21   021925042  000802  25.44  89.93 1007.6    106°  13    7   105°  12     Scattered low Cu                                    |
|  22   003825244  002658  25.47  87.49 1008.1     81°  14    8   140°  10     Dark                                                |
|  23   003825027  005256  23.74  84.99 1007.3     77°  21    8    75°  22     Dark                                                |
|  24   003825253  010717  25.51  84.96 1009.7     98°  19    8   --------     Dark                                                |
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