DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE Air Force Reserve Command MEMORANDUM FOR ARWO Scheduler 09 Jul 13 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 | INVEST/RP ON TS CHANTAL | | Mission ID | 5302 0103A CHANTAL | | Departure Base/Time | TISX 07/08/13 18:40 | | Arrival Base/Time | TISx 07/09/13 02:44 | | Flight Time | 8.1 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 | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 07/08/13 22:27 | 11 38 N | 054 34 W | 1010 | 29 | 27 | | | 07/09/13 00:12 | 12 03 N | 055 10 W | 1012 | 32 | 30 | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- C R E W R O S T E R ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |AC | ANDERSON | |CP | POUKNER | |Nav | PRICE | |ARWO | HARTER | |LM | JENNA | |OTHER| | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- REMARKS: 2 VDMS (Tried to talk CARCAH/NHC out of them since this was a borderline (albeit very vigorous open wave in my opinion (half a storm--you could water ski on the southern half). However, NHC had already named it that morning and THEREFORE strong-arm politics prevailed (i.e. Feuer said they wanted them anyway) 1 DROP 11 RECCOS ALL SYSTEMS WELL SFMR WORKED WELL AT LOW LEVEL (BUT THERE WAS ATTENUATION AT THE LOW WIND SPEEDS) TEMP WETTING ALGORITHM APPEARED TO WORK FINE RMH