Mission Summary
20170824N1 Aircraft 49RF
Tropical Storm Harvey

Aircraft Crew (49RF)
Aircraft CommanderKristie Twining
Co-pilotFritzler
Co-pilotTanner Sims
Flight DirectorRich Henning
Flight DirectorPaul Flaherty
System EngineerJim Roles
Data TechnicianMiller
Dropsonde OperatorJeff Smith
Dropsonde OperatorUnderwood


Proposed NOAA 49 track

Actual NOAA 49 track

Mission Plan :

NOAA 49RF will conduct NHC-tasked Synoptic Surveillance mission on Tropical Storm Harvey in the Gulf of Mexico.

HURRICANE SYNOPTIC SURVEILLANCE MISSION PLAN: HARVEY
Prepared by the National Hurricane Center
August 22, 2017 6:32:07 PM
Aircraft: N49RF
Proposed takeoff: 24/0530Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON Time
deg min deg min hr:min
1 26 00 -84 00 0:23
2 24 30 -83 30 0:35
3 24 00 -85 00 0:48
4 24 00 -86 30 0:60
5 24 00 -88 00 1:11
6 24 00 -89 30 1:23
7 25 30 -90 00 1:36
8 25 06 -91 24 1:47
9 23 48 -91 06 1:58
10 22 30 -91 24 2:09
11 21 27 -92 14 2:20
12 20 53 -93 26 2:30
13 20 53 -94 46 2:41
14 21 27 -95 58 2:52
15 22 30 -96 48 3:02
16 23 48 -97 06 3:13
17 26 09 -95 58 3:34
18 26 43 -94 46 3:45
19 28 00 -95 00 3:55
20 28 00 -93 00 4:11
21 26 43 -93 26 4:22
22 26 09 -92 14 4:32
23 28 00 -91 00 4:50
24 27 00 -89 30 5:04
25 26 00 -88 30 5:16
26 26 00 -87 00 5:27
27 29 00 -88 00 5:53
28 27 30 -86 30 6:10
29 27 30 -85 00 6:21
30 28 30 -84 00 6:32
Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Lakeland-Linder, FL 05:44 UTC Lakeland-Linder, FL 12:29 UTC

30 dropsondes deployed, 29 good and 29 sent, 1 bad.

Problems :


Mission Data :

One second data | NetCDF file | Flight Director's log | Flight Director's Manifest | Drop log

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