Mission Summary
20151002N1 Aircraft 49RF
Synoptic Surveillance mission Tropical Storm Joaquin

Aircraft Crew (49RF)
Aircraft CommanderJason Mansour
Co-pilotDavid Cowan
Co-pilotBrad Fritzler
Flight DirectorBarry Damiano
Flight DirectorIan Sears
Data TechnicianCharles Lynch
Elec. TechnicianLeonard Miller
Dropsonde OperatorJames Warnecke
Dropsonde OperatorDale Carpenter

Scientific Crew (49RF)
Dave HallNOAA HQ PAO


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 30, 2015 6:16:49 PM
Aircraft: N49RF
Proposed takeoff: 30/0530Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON Time
deg min deg min hr:min
1 28 00 -78 000:35
2 29 00 -77 000:46
3 27 39 -76 220:58
4 28 13 -75 101:08
5 28 13 -73 501:19
6 30 00 -74 001:33
7 29 00 -72 001:51
8 28 00 -71 002:02
9 27 39 -72 382:15
10 26 36 -71 482:25
11 25 18 -71 302:36
12 26 00 -70 002:49
13 26 00 -68 003:05
14 26 00 -66 003:20
15 26 00 -64 003:36
16 26 00 -62 003:51
17 26 00 -60 004:07
18 24 00 -61 004:25
19 24 00 -63 004:41
20 22 00 -63 004:57
21 22 00 -65 005:13
22 24 00 -65 005:29
23 24 00 -67 005:45
24 23 00 -68 305:59
25 24 00 -70 006:13
26 24 00 -71 486:27
27 22 57 -72 386:38
28 22 23 -73 506:49
29 22 23 -75 106:59
30 22 57 -76 227:10
31 24 00 -77 127:21
32 25 18 -77 307:31
33 26 36 -77 127:42
34 27 00 -79 007:57
Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
MacDill AFB, FL05:33 UTC MacDill AFB, FL13:16 UTC

30 sondes deployed, all good and 29 transmitted.

Problems :

No TDR available.


Mission Data :


Flight track

Temperature and Moisture

Wind and Atlitude

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