N42/3RF HRD GPS Dropwindsonde Scientist Log

Storm Gert                       Dropwindsonde Scientists Daniel Stern
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Flight ID 050724I2               Flight Director Paul Flaherty                                 Takeoff from MACDILL  at  170620  UTC
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Mission ID WX07A GERT            AVAPS Operators John Hill/Mark Rogers                         Recovery  at MACDILL  at   0113   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    003115480  201729  20.97  96.00 1010.5   250°  22    12                         RH heating cycles; poor telemetry near EOD |
|  2    002615367  202353  21.22  96.44 1009.9   246°  27     5                         RH heating cycles                          |
|  3    001915303  202943  21.43  96.83 1009.1   --------------                         No winds                                   |
|  4    003115191  203504  21.50  97.14 1008.5   279°  20     7                         Noisy GPS signal                           |
|  5    003115192  204050  21.20  97.03 1009.8   263°  20     8                         Removed flight-level Td; possible P bias   |
|                                                                                       -2.0 mb                                    |
|  6    002638090  205241  21.63  96.32 1008.7   175°  20     5                         Delayed launch detect 5.5 s; fast fall but |
|                                                                                       kept winds                                 |
|  7    001915292  210309  21.97  95.57 1011.0   126°  31     7                         Delayed launch detect 5.5 s                |
|  8    002638030  211723  22.43  96.13 1010.4   104°  32     7                         Delayed launch detect 3 s                  |
|  9    002638092  212614  22.59  96.80 1009.3    93°  33     7                         No winds 918-942 mb                        |
|  10   002615299  213520  22.00  96.85 1007.5   108°  28     8                                                                    |
|  11   002158082  214135  21.58  96.88 1007.6   234°  07     8                         Flight-level Td removed                    |
|  12   002615551  214908  21.07  96.86 1009.1   252°  22     8                         RH heating cycles                          |
|  13   002638014  215119  20.58  96.71 1009.7   247°  15     5                         No heights                                 |
|  14   002615310  220440  20.81  96.16 1011.2   242°  10     4                                                                    |
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