DEPARMENT OF THE AIR FORCE Air Force Reserve Command MEMORANDUM FOR ARWO Scheduler 11 Sep 11 FROM: 53 WRS Flight Meteorologist SUBJECT: Mission Summary Report G E N E R A L I N F O R M A T I O N ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Mission Type | Tropical Storm | | Tasking | 11 Sep/00 & 06Z, 18.2N 62.8W, drps eyes & NE mxw | | Mission ID | 5307 0514A MARIA | | Departure Base/Time | KHST 09/10/11 20:58 | | Arrival Base/Time | KHST 09/11/11 08:41 | | Flight Time | 11.7 hours | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- F I X P O I N T S ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Latitude | Longitude | SLP | MWnd | SWS | | | Date/Time | dd mm N/S | ddd mm E/W | mb | kt | kt | Hurricane | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 09/11/11 03:21 | 18 26 N | 062 58 W | 1007 | 19/58 | 24/54 | | | 09/11/11 05:03 | 18 36 N | 063 16 W | 1005 | 58 | 46 | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- C R E W R O S T E R ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |AC | McAllister | |CP | Piercefield | |Nav | Price, Walter | |ARWO | Dutton | |LM | Hlavac | |OTHER| | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- REMARKS: Relative late takeoff. Homestead lost internet capability, so getting flight plan into system took longer than normal. Coords further E than first progged (extra 30 - 45 mins). Real takeoff time should have been 2015Z... MX not available to release aircraft until 2000Z (arrived from Keesler (not St Croix) at 1900Z! Got to first fix 0033Z. Given credit for 00Z. First two "fixes" were reccos until we had the NW wind in the SW quad, which was finally obtained 10 nm from endpoint (16 kts found). Next two fixes were VDMs. Sondes lined up well with extrap SLP and SFMR except last fix (HSS difference 22 m which equals 2 mb, sonde had 1006, extrap 1003; LM reworked sonde and got 1005 mb). We were lucky. No flight orders, no BFT, no secrets, no spare, and no MX support. No internet avail at show time. Coords were updated by NHC at 1500Z, but crew didn't get the update until 1845Z (show time). 30 mins after show time crew found out we were about an hour behind, and never caught up. Got the break of 30 mins for the on-time window, and got another 20 mins thru ATC direct routing. Penetrations Logged: 0 ARWO:____________________________________ Penetrations Verified: Verifier:____________________________________ Penetrations Posted: Awards:____________________________________