N42/3RF HRD GPS Dropwindsonde Scientist Log

Storm IFEX Genesis               Dropwindsonde Scientists Krystal Valde
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Flight ID 050723I                Flight Director Marty Mayeaux                                 Takeoff from MACDILL  at  000305  UTC
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Mission ID WXWXA TRAIN           AVAPS Operators Bill Olney/Damon San Souci                    Recovery  at MACDILL  at  081817  UTC
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| Drop    Sonde     Time    Lat    Lon  Surface   Wind closet     BT     Eye,           Comments                                   |
|  #      ID #      (UTC)   (°N)  (°W) Pressure   to surface      SST    Eyewall,                                                  |
|                                        (mb)     dir/spd   hgt  (°C)    Rainband                                                  |
|                                                 (kt)      (m)          (direction)                                               |
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|  1    034113029  015051  21.75  85.93 1015.0    74°  11     7                         Dry sounding; AVAPS applied pressure       |
|                                                                                       baseline correction; RH heating cycles     |
|  2    033048015  020222  20.99  86.18 1015.2   109°  16     4                         Set flight-level Td missing; no surface    |
|                                                                                       Td/RH; AVAPS applied pressure baseline     |
|                                                                                       correction; RH heating cycles              |
|  3    034618048  021727  19.99  86.52 1014.7   123°  23     4                         Dry humidity bias correction applied;      |
|                                                                                       saturated above ~730 mb                    |
|  4    043425021  023245  18.98  86.82 1013.6   111°  23     7                         AVAPS applied pressure baseline correction |
|  5    034355028  024412  18.19  87.01 1014.0   --------------                         Dry humidity bias correction applied; no   |
|                                                                                       winds from 950 mb downward; saturated      |
|                                                                                       between 700-850 mb; AVAPS applied pressure |
|                                                                                       baseline correction                        |
|  6    034355024  025604  17.39  87.22 1013.5   123°  28     4                         Dry humidity bias correction applied       |
|  7    034618057  031005  17.90  86.42 1013.2   133°  27     7                                                                    |
|  8    034323170  032429  18.51  85.70 1014.8   153°  19     7                         Weak telemetry; saturated near flight      |
|                                                                                       level; flying between 2 convective cells;  |
|                                                                                       no flight-level Td                         |
|  9    034323173  033935  19.51  86.32 1015.0   --------------                         Spotty wind data; no surface winds         |
|  9A   034113082  034305  19.76  86.36 1015.3   --------------                         "Backup" sonde; no surface wind            |
|  10   034323180  035258  20.51  86.24 1016.3   --------------                         Set flight-level Td as missing             |
|  11   034113087  041142  21.90  86.10 1015.6   110°  11     4                                                                    |
|  12   043625011  042243  21.88  87.02 1016.4   100°  10     4                                                                    |
|  13   034618044  043432  21.89  88.01 1014.6   103°  10     7                         RH heating cycles                          |
|  14   034113020  044635  21.89  89.01 1015.7    98°  10     4                         RH heating cycles                          |
|  15   034323186  045833  21.88  90.02 1015.0    99°  18     7                         Saturated @ ~780 & 975 mb; RH heating      |
|                                                                                       cycles                                     |
|  16   035135092  051012  21.83  91.01 1014.9   --------------  28.5                   RH heating cycles; no surface wind         |
|  17   034113027  052419  20.99  91.54 1013.0   --------------  26.5                   No sfc. Td/RH/winds                        |
|  18   051926315  053619  20.03  91.98 1012.4    66°  20     4  30.2                   Saturated below 950 mb; dry humidity bias  |
|                                                                                       correction applied; no sfc. Td/RH          |
|  19   044535205  055410  20.07  90.77 1012.5    96°  21     8                         RH heating cycles                          |
|  20   051926118  060712  21.01  90.75 1013.7    89°  16     7                         Dry humidity bias correction applied; RH   |
|                                                                                       heating cycles                             |
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