Mission Summary
20180910N1 Aircraft 49RF
Hurricane Florence (AL06)
Synoptic Surveillance

Aircraft Crew (49RF)
Aircraft CommanderDavid Cowan
Co-pilotTanner Sims
Flight DirectorRich Henning
System EngineerTerry Lynch
Data TechnicianLeonard Miller
Dropsonde OperatorCharles Lynch
Dropsonde OperatorJeff Hartberger

Scientific Crew (49RF)
Dropsonde ScientistBrittany Dahl(HRD)


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 3:15:30 PM
Aircraft: N49RF
Proposed takeoff: 10/0530Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON Time
deg min deg min hr:min
1 27 42 -77 330:41
2 27 37 -76 050:52
3 27 32 -74 381:04
4 27 27 -73 101:15
5 27 21 -71 421:26
6 27 16 -70 141:38
7 27 11 -68 461:49
8 27 06 -67 182:00
9 26 52 -65 322:14
10 26 38 -63 462:28
11 26 24 -62 002:42
12 27 27 -61 102:52
13 29 06 -61 183:06
14 29 36 -59 483:18
15 28 01 -59 583:31
16 28 01 -58 383:41
17 30 00 -58 003:58
18 29 00 -56 004:15
19 27 27 -57 264:32
20 26 24 -56 364:43
21 25 06 -56 184:54
22 23 48 -56 365:05
23 22 45 -57 265:15
24 22 11 -58 385:26
25 22 11 -59 585:37
26 22 45 -61 105:47
27 23 48 -62 005:58
28 25 06 -62 186:09

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
St. Croix, USVI 07:50 UTC Linder-Lakeland, FL 15:16 UTC

Problems :


Mission Data :


Flight track

Temperature and Moisture

Wind and Atlitude

Flight Director's log | Flight Director's manifest | NetCDF data | serial data | 1 second data
AVAPS log | Drop log


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