Hurricane Field Program Update – Friday, September 17, 2010 AT 9:40 AM EDT

OPERATIONS … LAST UPDATE FOR THIS DEPLOYMENT …

NOAA P-3s

Thursday September 16

NOAA-42: N42 landed back at MacDill AFB/Tampa at 7:50 PM EDT.

NOAA-43: DOWN in STX until further notice.

Friday September 17

NOAA-42: N42’s mission into H. Karl was cancelled.

NOAA-43: DOWN

G-IV

Thursday September 16

NOAA-49: N49 flew 1730 UTC (1:30PM EDT) takeoff on a research mission around T.S. Karl. Recovery is at MacDill AFB/Tampa.

Friday September 17

NOAA-49: No missions.

AFRC DRIFT BUOY DEPLOYMENT: No missions scheduled for next 24 h.

CONFERENCE CALL

There are no HRD Conference calls scheduled until further notice. Today’s call was cancelled at ~7:00 AM.

The daily Tri-Agency list information from Michael Goodman for the noon project briefing. This conference is at 12:00 Noon every day and is by invitation only.

RAB

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