As Earl continues intensification to a major hurricane and passes just north of the Leeward Islands (Guadalupe is visible outlined in black at the very bottom right of the images) NOAA P-3 missions continue to collect airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. Included here you will see images of the horizontal winds within the inner core of Hurricane Earl sampled from the tail Doppler radar on the P-3 early on 30 August 2010. These images are at three altitudes, 1km, 5km, and 10km, using a composite of winds from all three legs oriented southeast-northwest, southwest-northeast, and north-south. Note the strongest winds on the north-northeast side of the storm at 1 and 5 km, swinging to the north-northwest at 10 km. Compared to the analyses in the first two P-3 missions there is only a slight tilt in the center of the circulation to the south from 1 km to 10 km altitude, suggesting that Earl is encountering much less vertical shear of the horizontal wind over the vortex. The radius of the maximum wind continues to contract over the past few analyses. Also visible in the analyses at 1 and 5 km is a hint of a secondary wind maximum at larger radii, particularly to the east and northeast of the center.