Mission Plan :

NOAA 43RF will conduct an NHC-tasked reconnaissance mission into AL99 in the Florida Straits. If time allows, N43 will climb to 10 kft for a rotated Figure 4, and/or climb to a higher altitude and execute a lawnmower pattern in the environment ahead of AL99.

Mission Summary :

NOAA 43RF conducted an NHC-tasked reconnaissance mission into AL99 in the Florida Straits. Data from 2500 ft closed the circulation and provided the necessary information to upgrade to TD9. Once released from NHC-tasking, N43 climbed to 29 kft and conducted a lawnmower survey with 8 drops in the environment west and north of TD9. Drops were located on the turn and end points of the 2.5 leg, east-west oriented lawnmower.

Jon Zawislak
Sept. 7, 2016

Flight Level wind plots

SFMR wind plots

Flight track

Temperature and Moisture

Wind and Atlitude

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

LPS log | Radar log | Drop log

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