Mission Summary
20180909N1 Aircraft 49RF
Hurricane Florence (AL06)
Synoptic Surveillance

Aircraft Crew (49RF)
Aircraft CommanderKristie Twining
Co-pilotRebecca Waddington
Co-pilotBrad Fritzler
Flight DirectorPaul Flaherty
Flight DirectorJack Parrish
System EngineerMike McAllister
Data TechnicianDana Naeher
Dropsonde OperatorJeff Smith
Dropsonde OperatorAkshar Patel

Scientific Crew (49RF)
None


Proposed NOAA 49 track

Mission Plan :

NOAA 49RF (N49) will fly a NHC-tasked Synoptic Surveillance missions around Hurricane Florence.

HURRICANE SYNOPTIC SURVEILLANCE MISSION PLAN: Florence
National Hurricane Center
September 08, 2018 2:41:59 PM
Aircraft: N49RF
Proposed takeoff: 09/1730Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON Time
deg min deg min hr:min
1 19 22 -62 090:25
2 20 12 -60 490:38
3 21 03 -59 300:50
4 21 53 -58 101:03
5 21 53 -56 501:13
6 22 27 -55 381:24
7 23 30 -54 481:35
8 24 48 -54 301:45
9 26 06 -54 481:56
10 27 09 -55 382:07
11 27 43 -56 502:17
12 30 00 -56 002:37
13 30 00 -58 002:52
14 27 43 -58 103:11
15 27 09 -59 223:21
16 26 06 -60 123:32
17 24 48 -59 003:46
18 25 52 -58 343:56
19 26 18 -57 304:05
20 25 52 -56 264:14
21 24 48 -56 004:23
22 23 44 -56 264:32
23 23 18 -57 304:41
24 23 44 -58 344:50
25 22 27 -59 225:03
26 23 30 -60 125:13
27 24 48 -60 305:24
28 25 01 -61 565:35
29 25 13 -63 215:47
30 25 26 -64 475:58
31 25 39 -66 136:09
32 25 51 -67 396:20
33 26 04 -69 056:32
34 26 16 -70 306:43
35 26 29 -71 566:54
36 26 42 -73 227:05
37 26 54 -74 487:17
38 27 07 -76 147:28
39 27 20 -77 407:39

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Linder-Lakeland, FL 17:20 UTC St. Croix, USVI 01:39 UTC

Problems :


Mission Data :


Flight track

Temperature and Moisture

Wind and Atlitude

Flight Director's log | NetCDF data | serial data | 1 second data


Page last updated Sept. 10, 2018
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