Mission Summary
20190712H1 Aircraft 42RF
Ferry

Aircraft Crew (42RF)
Aircraft CommanderJustin Kibbey
Co-pilot Pat Didier
Co-pilotDean Legidakes
Flight EngineerPaul Heystek
Flight EngineerMike Sanchez
NavigatorPete Freeman
Flight DirectorJack Parrish
System EngineerAkshar Patel
Data TechnicianTerry Lynch
Data TechnicianTodd Richards

Science crew (42RF)
LPSFrank MarksHRD
RadarTrey AlveyCIMAS
DropsondeSteve DiazHRD
DropsondeSim AbersonHRD

Science crew (Ground)
RadarJohn GamacheHRD

Mission Plan :

NOAA 42RF (N42) will carry out a TDR mission into Tropical Disturbance AL92 in the Gulf of Mexico.


Proposed flight track

Actual flight track

TDR MISSION PLAN: AL92 lawnmower pattern
Prepared by the Hurricane Research Division
July 10, 2019
Aircraft: N42RF
Proposed takeoff: 11/0800Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON RAD/AZM Time
deg min deg min n mi/deg hr:min
1S29 0989 27 105/0451:14
2S26 4092 14 105/2252:07
3S26 4089 28 105/1352:45
4S29 0992 15 105/3153:38
5S27 5492 50 105/2703:59
6S27 5488 52 105/0904:52
7S29 3990 51 105/0005:30
8S26 0990 51 105/1806:23

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Linder-Lakeland Airport, FL 08:03 UTC Linder-Lakeland Airport, FL 15:25 UTC
Expendables 24 GPS sondes all good

Problems :


Mission Data :


Track with SFMR winds

Flight track with winds

Track with SFMR winds (Inner core)

Flight track with winds (Inner core)

Timeseries wind, SFMR wind, rain rate, altitude and pressure plots

Flight Director's log | Flight Director's manifest | NetCDF data | serial data | 1 second data
LPS log | Radar log | Drop log | Data log

Flight track

Temperature and Moisture

Wind and Atlitude


Page last updated March 20, 2020
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