Mission Summary
20190829N1 Aircraft 49RF
Synoptic Surveillance around Dorian

Aircraft Crew (49RF)
Aircraft CommanderKristie Twining
Co-pilotRebecca Waddington
Co-pilot Norman
Flight DirectorRich Henning
Flight DirectorIan Sears
System EngineerK Smith
Data TechnicianGabe Defeo
AVAPSJeff Smith
AVAPSNick Underwood

Science crew (49RF)
None

Science crew (Ground)
GuestGeorge WaldenbergerWFTV


Figure 1. Flight plan for 20190829N1 mission for Dorian
Figure 2. Actual Flight track for 20190829N1 mission for Dorian

Mission Plan :

NOAA49 will conduct a synoptic surveillance mission around Hurricane Dorian.

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Linder-Lakeland, FL 17:34 UTC Linder-Lakeland, FL 01:05 UTC
Expendables 36 GPS sondes
3 bad

HURRICANE SYNOPTIC SURVEILLANCE MISSION PLAN: DORIAN
Prepared by the National Hurricane Center
August 28, 2019 1:11:01 PM
Aircraft: N49RF
Proposed takeoff: 29/1730Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON Time
deg min deg min hr:min
1 28 42 -78 440:32
2 28 42 -77 010:45
3 28 42 -75 190:58
4 28 42 -73 301:12
5 28 42 -71 421:26
6 28 42 -70 001:39
7 27 06 -70 001:52
8 25 54 -71 002:05
9 24 45 -70 162:16
10 25 19 -69 042:26
11 25 19 -67 442:37
12 24 45 -66 322:47
13 23 42 -65 422:58
14 22 24 -65 243:09
15 21 06 -65 423:20
16 20 03 -66 323:30
17 19 29 -67 443:41
18 19 29 -69 043:52
19 20 03 -70 164:02
20 21 06 -71 064:13
21 22 24 -69 544:27
22 23 28 -69 284:37
23 23 54 -68 244:46
24 23 28 -67 204:55
25 22 24 -66 545:04
26 21 20 -67 205:13
27 20 54 -68 245:22
28 21 20 -69 285:32
29 22 24 -71 245:49
30 23 42 -71 066:00
31 25 00 -72 126:14
32 25 00 -74 006:28
33 25 00 -75 566:43

Mission Evaluation / Problems :

Mission Data :

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

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