Mission Summary
20150930N1 Aircraft 49RF
Synoptic Surveillance mission Tropical Storm Joaquin

Aircraft Crew (49RF)
Aircraft CommanderRon Moyers
Co-pilotDoug MacIntyre
Co-pilot
Flight DirectorMike Holmes
Flight DirectorRich Henning
Data TechnicianJoe Greene
Elec. TechnicianGabe Defeo
Dropsonde OperatorJeff Newnam
Dropsonde OperatorJeff Hartberger
Scientific Crew (49RF)
ObservorChris V. Harreal
GuestJason Clark


Proposed NOAA 49 track

Mission Plan :

NOAA 49RF will conduct an NHC-tasked Synoptic Surveillance mission around Tropical Storm Joaquin in the Atlantic northeast of the Bahamas.

Synoptic Suveillance MISSION PLAN: Joaquin
Prepared by the National Hurricane Center
September 29, 2015 2:46:12 PM
Aircraft: N49RF
Proposed takeoff: 30/1730Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON Time
deg min deg min hr:min
1 27 01 -79 190:26
2 26 37 -77 420:39
3 26 24 -74 301:03
4 26 12 -73 061:14
5 26 12 -71 361:26
6 26 12 -70 061:38
7 24 54 -70 241:48
8 23 51 -71 141:59
9 23 17 -72 262:10
10 23 17 -73 462:20
11 23 51 -74 582:31
12 24 54 -75 482:41
13 26 12 -76 062:52
14 27 30 -75 483:03
15 28 33 -74 583:14
16 29 07 -73 463:24
17 29 07 -72 263:35
18 28 33 -71 143:45
19 27 30 -70 243:56
20 29 30 -70 004:12
21 30 30 -72 004:29
22 30 30 -74 004:45
23 30 30 -76 004:60
24 30 30 -78 005:15
25 28 30 -78 005:31
26 28 30 -85 006:25
27 28 30 -87 006:40
28 28 30 -89 006:56
29 26 30 -88 007:14
30 26 30 -86 007:29
31 26 30 -84 007:45
Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
MacDill AFB, FL17:26 UTC MacDill AFB, FL02:02 UTC

37 dropsondes deployed, 35 were good and sent with 2 bad. 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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