Does anybody fly into Easter Pacific Hurricanes?

[DanKellFla]

I was just curious if there was an equivalent organization that flew into Eastern Pacific Hurricanes?

[Thunder44]

Yes, they will fly planes out there if they pose a significant threat to Mexico.

[bombarderoazul]

Yes and into Central America also, last year they flew into Adrian.

[HURAKAN]

And if they pose a threat to Hawaii (significant threat).

[WindRunner]

It's the same group of people and planes, however. They just have to fly to a base closer to the storm first before flying into the storm.

[Derek Ortt]

would not be surprised to see planes deployed to Honolulu as early as Wednesday, unless Damiel turns more to the north

[Ptarmigan]

Yes, East Pacific is watched by NHC, which also watches the Atlantic.

[CrazyC83]

What happens if planes are needed in more than one place at once? Do they have enough staff and planes to fly into several storms simultaneously? Also what are the possible deployment locations?

[Aslkahuna]

To fly anything near Hawaii, the deployment base would be Hickam near Honolulu. Depending upon where any storm headed towards Mexico, I would suspect a deployment out of a Base in South Texas, southern Arizona (Davis-Montham), or SoCA. The key is longitude since most of Mexico and Central America are well SE of CA and even SE of AZ.

Steve

[pojo]

Yes, the NOAA AND the 53rd WRS flies EPAC systems... if AND only if they pose a threat to Hawaii, Mexico and CENTAM... CENPAC storms we fly out of Hickam, EPAC is out of Travis AFB, CA.

The USAFR (53rd WRS) has 10 aircraft.... and NOAA has 2 G4 Gulfstreams and 2 P3 Orion aircraft and yes there have been continuous fixes into the storms.... 2 53rd aircrafts or 1 NOAA/1 53rd.... is has happened before and will happen again if the situation arises. If a tasking does come up, we WILL make sure we have enough fliers around to support the mission... its wx mission (during storm season) first and foremost.

All I can say is that we are watching Cosme closely.

[Aslkahuna]

Travis, that's an odd choice since it's a full 10 degrees of longitude west of the southern tip of Baja.

Steve