NOAA’s P-3 reconnaissance continued through this past weekend for operations into then Tropical Storm Laura. Flights were tasked by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) and the Environmental Modeling Center (EMC). Both P-3 aircrafts, named Kermit and Miss Piggy, conducted missions into the system.
AOML scientists support each flight by processing data to ensure the highest quality and coverage is available to NOAA partners and the public. Measurements collected by various instrumentation during these flights helped verify an increase in Laura’s circulation strength after clearing Cuba and the Greater Antilles, as stated in a recent NHC forecast discussion.
The Environmental Modeling Center has extended their twice daily tasking of NOAA’s P-3’s this week into recently designated Hurricane Laura. Missions are expected to continue through the evening of Wednesday, August 26.
Kermit (NOAA 42) will depart from Lakeland, FL at 5PM EDT for its 8-hour mission into Hurricane Laura, collecting data that will be ingested into numerical weather models in real-time.
NHC has updated the forecast for Laura to make landfall as a major hurricane on the coasts of Texas and/or Louisiana.
>> Scientists K. Ryan / L. Bucci
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