Mission Summary
20190901N1 Aircraft 49RF
Synoptic Surveillance around Dorian

Aircraft Crew (49RF)
Aircraft CommanderRon Moyers
Co-pilotBrad Fitzler
Co-pilotMatthew Nardi
Flight DirectorAshley Lundry
Flight DirectorNicMorgan
System EngineerSteve Paul
AVAPSLeonard Miller
AVAPSAkshar Patel

Science crew (49RF)
None

Science crew (Ground)
RadarHRD


Figure 1. Flight plan for 20190901N1 mission for Dorian
Figure 2. Actual Flight track for 20190901N1 mission for Dorian

Mission Plan :

NOAA49 will conduct a synoptic surveillance mission around Hurricane Dorian.

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Linder-Lakeland, FL 05:30 UTC Linder-Lakeland, FL 13:53 UTC
Expendables 30 GPS sondes
1 bad

HURRICANE SYNOPTIC SURVEILLANCE MISSION PLAN: DORIAN
Prepared by the National Hurricane Center
August 30, 2019 9:29:55 PM
Aircraft: N49RF
Proposed takeoff: 01/0530Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON Time
deg min deg min hr:min
1 27 54 -78 480:31
2 26 36 -79 060:42
3 25 18 -78 480:53
4 26 36 -77 361:07
5 27 40 -77 101:17
6 28 06 -76 061:25
7 27 40 -75 021:34
8 26 36 -74 361:44
9 25 32 -75 021:53
10 25 06 -76 062:02
11 23 41 -76 462:15
12 23 41 -75 262:25
13 22 00 -75 002:39
14 24 00 -74 002:57
15 25 18 -73 243:09
16 25 36 -71 363:23
17 27 06 -71 363:36
18 26 36 -73 063:48
19 27 54 -73 243:59
20 29 00 -72 004:13
21 29 00 -70 004:28
22 31 00 -69 004:46
23 31 00 -71 005:01
24 31 00 -73 005:16
25 28 57 -74 145:36
26 29 31 -75 265:46
27 32 00 -75 006:07
28 32 00 -77 006:22
29 29 31 -76 466:42
30 28 57 -77 586:52
31 31 00 -79 007:11
32 31 00 -81 007:26

Mission Evaluation / Problems :

Mission Data :

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

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