Mission Summary
20180910N2 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 09, 2018 2:52:13 PM
Aircraft: N49RF
Proposed takeoff: 10/1730Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON Time
deg min deg min hr:min
1 27 00 -78 000:38
2 27 00 -76 000:54
3 27 00 -74 001:09
4 27 00 -72 001:25
5 27 00 -70 001:40
6 27 00 -68 001:56
7 27 00 -66 002:11
8 26 54 -64 242:24
9 27 57 -63 342:34
10 28 31 -62 222:45
11 28 31 -61 022:55
12 27 57 -59 503:05
13 26 54 -59 003:16
14 25 36 -58 423:27
15 24 18 -59 003:38
16 23 15 -59 503:48
17 22 41 -61 023:59
18 22 41 -62 224:09
19 23 15 -63 344:20
20 24 18 -64 244:31
21 25 36 -64 424:42
22 24 00 -67 005:04
23 22 00 -68 005:22
24 24 00 -69 005:40
25 24 00 -71 005:56
26 22 00 -72 006:14
27 24 00 -73 006:32
28 24 00 -75 006:48
29 22 00 -76 007:06
30 24 00 -79 007:34

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Linder-Lakeland, FL 17:40 UTC Linder-Lakeland, FL 01:49 UTC

Problems :


Mission Data :


Flight track

Temperature and Moisture

Wind and Atlitude

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


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