Mission Summary
20190827N1 Aircraft 49RF
Synoptic Surveillance around Dorian

Aircraft Crew (49RF)
Aircraft CommanderJason Mansour
Co-pilotRebecca Waddington
Co-pilotMatthew Nardi
Crew ChiefJeff Newnam
Flight DirectorRich Henning
Flight DirectorPaul Flaherty
System EngineerCharles Lynch
Data TechnicianGabe Defeo
AVAPSJeff Smith
AVAPSNick Underwood

Science crew (49RF)
None

Science crew (Ground)
RadarHRD


Figure 1. Flight plan for 20190827N1 mission for Dorian
Figure 2. Actual Flight track for 20190827N1 mission for Dorian

Mission Plan :

NOAA49 will conduct a synoptic surveillance mission around Tropical Storm Dorian.

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
St. Croix, USVI 17:29 UTC Barbados, BWI 00:02 UTC
Expendables 32 GPS sondes
2 bad

HURRICANE SYNOPTIC SURVEILLANCE MISSION PLAN: DORIAN
Prepared by the National Hurricane Center
August 26, 2019 4:17:24 PM
Aircraft: N49RF
Proposed takeoff: 27/1730Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON Time
deg min deg min hr:min
1 16 36 -63 300:14
2 18 00 -63 120:25
3 19 00 -64 120:37
4 19 48 -63 000:48
5 19 36 -61 301:00
6 17 27 -61 381:18
7 19 00 -60 121:35
8 20 00 -59 001:48
9 20 00 -57 242:01
10 18 48 -57 122:10
11 18 36 -58 422:23
12 17 06 -60 002:39
13 17 06 -58 002:55
14 15 06 -58 003:11
15 15 06 -60 183:29
16 15 06 -62 003:43
17 14 02 -62 263:52
18 13 36 -63 304:02
19 14 02 -64 344:11
20 15 06 -65 004:20
21 16 10 -64 344:30
22 16 24 -66 124:43
23 17 06 -67 304:55
24 15 06 -66 305:13
25 13 48 -66 125:24
26 12 45 -65 225:35
27 12 11 -64 105:46
28 12 11 -62 505:57
29 12 45 -61 386:07
30 13 48 -60 486:18

Mission Evaluation / Problems :

Mission Data :

Flight Director's log | Flight Director's manifest | NetCDF data | serial data | HDOB data

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