Mission Summary
20180806N1 Aircraft 49RF
Hurricane Hector (EP10)
Synoptic Surveillance

Aircraft Crew (49RF)
Aircraft CommanderKristie Twining
Co-pilotRebecca Waddington
Co-pilotBrad Fritzler
Flight DirectorIan Sears
Flight DirectorPaul Flaherty
System EngineerMichael McAlister
Data TechnicianGabe Defeo
Data TechnicianUnderwood
Dropsonde OperatorCharles Lynch

Scientific Crew (49RF)
None

Scientific Crew (Ground)
RadarHRD


Proposed NOAA 49 track

Final flight track

Mission Plan :

NOAA 49RF (N49) will conduct an NHC-tasked Synoptic surveillance mission around Hurricane Hector.

HURRICANE SYNOPTIC SURVEILLANCE MISSION PLAN: Hector
Prepared by the National Hurricane Center
August 05, 2018 1:44:04 PM
Aircraft: N49RF
Proposed takeoff: 06/1730Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON Time
deg min deg min hr:min
1 22 00-155 000:24
2 22 00-153 000:40
3 20 00-153 000:56
4 20 00-151 001:12
5 22 00-151 001:28
6 22 00-149 001:44
7 20 00-149 002:00
8 18 00-148 002:18
9 20 00-147 002:37
10 22 00-147 002:53
11 22 00-145 003:09
12 20 00-145 003:25
13 18 03-145 583:43
14 18 37-144 463:54
15 18 37-143 264:04
16 18 03-142 144:15
17 17 00-141 244:26
18 15 42-141 064:37
19 14 24-141 244:48
20 13 21-142 144:58
21 12 47-143 265:09
22 12 47-144 465:20
23 13 21-145 585:31
24 14 24-146 485:42
25 15 42-147 065:52
26 17 00-146 486:03
27 16 42-148 366:18
28 16 42-150 066:30
29 15 12-150 066:42
30 15 12-151 366:54
31 16 42-151 367:07
32 18 12-151 067:20
33 18 12-152 367:31
34 18 12-154 067:43
35 18 12-155 367:55

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Long Beach, CA 17:29 UTC Honolulu, HI 01:17 UTC

Problems :


Mission Data :


Flight track

Temperature and Moisture

Wind and Atlitude

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


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