Mission Summary
20180904N1 Aircraft 49RF
Hurricane Norman (EP16)
Synoptic Surveillance

Aircraft Crew (49RF)
Aircraft CommanderRon Moyers
Co-pilotRebecca Waddington
Co-pilotDavid Cowan
Flight DirectorRich Henning
Flight DirectorNic Morgan
Data TechnicianGabe Defeo
Data TechnicianMike Macallister
Dropsonde OperatorJeff Smith
Dropsonde OperatorAkshar Patel
Crew ChiefAngel Negron

Scientific Crew (49RF)
Bill ParisMediaNBC


Proposed NOAA 49 track

Mission Plan :

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

HURRICANE SYNOPTIC SURVEILLANCE MISSION PLAN: Norman
Prepared by the National Hurricane Center
September 03, 2018 3:04:25 PM
Aircraft: N49RF
Proposed takeoff: 04/1730Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON Time
deg min deg min hr:min
1 23 00 -157 000:16
2 25 00 -156 000:34
3 25 00 -154 000:50
4 25 00 -152 001:06
5 25 00 -150 001:21
6 25 00 -148 001:37
7 23 00 -149 001:55
8 22 33 -146 402:14
9 23 07 -145 282:24
10 24 12 -146 182:35
11 24 42 -144 482:48
12 25 42 -143 482:59
13 24 42 -141 483:16
14 24 12 -143 183:29
15 23 07 -144 083:40
16 22 33 -142 563:50
17 21 30 -142 064:01
18 22 42 -141 184:13
19 21 42 -140 184:24
20 20 12 -140 184:36
21 20 12 -141 484:48
22 18 54 -142 064:59
23 17 51 -142 565:10
24 17 17 -144 085:21
25 17 17 -145 285:31
26 17 51 -146 405:42
27 18 54 -147 305:53
28 20 12 -147 486:04
29 21 30 -147 306:15
30 21 28 -148 596:26
31 21 27 -150 286:38
32 21 25 -151 576:50
33 21 23 -153 277:02
34 21 21 -154 567:13

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Honolulu, HI 17:39 UTC Honolulu, HI 01:09 UTC

Problems :


Mission Data :


Flight track

Temperature and Moisture

Wind and Atlitude

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


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