Mission Summary
20180912N2 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 11, 2018 3:00:09 PM
Aircraft: N49RF
Proposed takeoff: 12/1730Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON Time
deg min deg min hr:min
1 30 01 -80 010:27
2 31 28 -80 560:41
3 31 03 -79 020:56
4 32 04 -78 041:07
5 33 30 -78 301:19
6 33 06 -77 061:30
7 32 24 -75 481:41
8 31 06 -76 061:52
9 31 06 -74 362:04
10 30 02 -74 102:13
11 29 36 -73 062:22
12 30 02 -72 022:31
13 31 06 -71 362:40
14 32 10 -72 022:49
15 32 36 -73 062:58
16 32 10 -74 103:07
17 33 27 -74 583:19
18 34 01 -73 463:29
19 35 30 -75 003:44
20 37 30 -73 304:04
21 39 30 -72 304:22
22 38 30 -70 304:38
23 37 30 -68 304:55
24 37 00 -71 005:14
25 36 00 -72 305:27
26 35 06 -71 065:40
27 34 01 -72 265:53
28 33 27 -71 146:03
29 32 24 -70 246:14
30 31 06 -70 066:25
31 29 48 -70 246:36
32 28 45 -71 146:46
33 28 11 -72 266:57
34 28 11 -73 467:07
35 28 45 -74 587:17
36 29 48 -75 487:28
37 29 20 -77 207:40
38 28 53 -78 537:53

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Linder-Lakeland, FL 17:30 UTC Linder-Lakeland, FL 01:00 UTC

Problems :

Mission Data :


Flight track
Temperature and Moisture
Wind and Atlitude

Flight Director's manifest | NetCDF data | 1 second data

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