Mission Summary
20181009N1 Aircraft 49RF
Hurricane Michael (AL14)
Synoptic Surveillance

Aircraft Crew (49RF)
Aircraft CommanderKristine Twining
Co-pilotRebecca Waddington
Co-pilotTanner Sims
Flight DirectorPaul Flaherty
Flight DirectorNic Morgan
System EngineerCharles Lynch
Data TechnicianLeonard Miller
Dropsonde OperatorJeff Hartberger
Dropsonde OperatorJeff Smith

Scientific Crew (49RF)
None


Proposed NOAA 49 track

Mission Plan :

NOAA 49RF (N49) will fly a NHC-tasked Synoptic Surveillance missions around Hurricane Michael.

HURRICANE SYNOPTIC SURVEILLANCE MISSION PLAN: Michael
Prepared by the National Hurricane Center
October 08, 2018 11:21:38 AM
Aircraft: N49RF
Proposed takeoff: 09/0530Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON Time
deg min deg min hr:min
1 26 30 -83 180:13
2 26 39 -84 320:23
3 27 54 -83 420:35
4 28 30 -84 540:45
5 27 13 -85 440:57
6 27 13 -87 041:08
7 28 30 -86 241:19
8 29 54 -86 241:31
9 29 54 -88 001:43
10 28 18 -88 001:56
11 28 18 -89 542:11
12 28 18 -91 422:24
13 28 18 -93 362:39
14 26 48 -93 362:51
15 25 00 -93 363:06
16 25 00 -91 423:21
17 26 48 -91 423:36
18 26 48 -89 543:49
19 26 39 -88 164:02
20 25 36 -89 064:13
21 24 18 -89 244:24
22 23 00 -89 064:35
23 21 57 -88 164:45
24 21 51 -87 004:55
25 21 42 -85 485:05
26 22 48 -86 245:15
27 23 14 -87 285:24
28 24 18 -87 545:34
29 25 22 -87 285:43
30 25 48 -86 245:52
31 25 22 -85 206:01
32 24 18 -84 546:10
33 23 14 -85 206:19
34 22 18 -84 386:29
35 23 09 -83 426:39
36 24 18 -83 246:49
37 25 36 -83 426:60

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Linder-Lakeland, FL 05:31 UTC Linder-Lakeland, FL 12:51 UTC
Dropsondes 43 dropped 36 good 7 bad

Problems :

Mission Data :


Flight track
Temperature and Moisture
Wind and Atlitude

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

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