ATL: FERNAND - Recon

[tropicwatch]

000
NOUS42 KNHC 241503
REPRPD
WEATHER RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHTS
CARCAH, NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER, MIAMI, FL.
1100 AM EDT SAT 24 AUGUST 2013
SUBJECT: TROPICAL CYCLONE PLAN OF THE DAY (TCPOD)
VALID 25/1100Z TO 26/1100Z AUGUST 2013
TCPOD NUMBER.....13-083

I. ATLANTIC REQUIREMENTS
1. BAY OF CAMPECHE
FLIGHT ONE -- TEAL 70
A. 25/2000Z
B. AFXXX 01BBA INVEST
C. 25/1715Z
D. 20.0N 95.5W
E. 25/1900Z TO 26/0000Z
F. SFC TO 5,000 FT
2. OUTLOOK FOR SUCCEEDING DAY.....NEGATIVE.
3. REMARKS: GLOBAL HAWK DROPWINDSONDE MISSION DEPARTING
24/1100Z TO OPERATE IN AREA BOUNDED BY 10N-22N AND 26W-36W,
FL 550 TO 650. DURATION OF MISSION IS 26 HRS.

II. PACIFIC REQUIREMENTS
1. NEGATIVE RECONNAISSANCE REQUIREMENTS.
2. OUTLOOK FOR SUCCEEDING DAY.....NEGATIVE.

$$
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[JonathanBelles]

Is there a webpage that will show the global hawk missions. That data should be fascinating. Ready for 26 hour shifts Dave? just kidding!

[tropicwatch]

Is there a webpage that will show the global hawk missions. That data should be fascinating. Ready for 26 hour shifts Dave? just kidding!

http://espo.nasa.gov/missions/hs3/content/HS3_0

[cycloneye]

Is there a webpage that will show the global hawk missions. That data should be fascinating. Ready for 26 hour shifts Dave? just kidding!

Here is a site where the flight path is seen but none of the instrument or dropsonde data.

http://airbornescience.nasa.gov/tracker/

[Dave]

Is there a webpage that will show the global hawk missions. That data should be fascinating. Ready for 26 hour shifts Dave? just kidding!

I'm ready for the 26 hour shifts are you Jonathan?

[lester]

Is there a webpage that will show the global hawk missions. That data should be fascinating. Ready for 26 hour shifts Dave? just kidding!

I'm ready for the 26 hour shifts are you Jonathan?

me too!

[Chris_in_Tampa]

Here is a site where the flight path is seen but none of the instrument or dropsonde data.

Experimentally, after the mission is over I add the GlobalHawk dropsonde data here manually if I remember:
http://www.tropicalatlantic.com/recon/r ... asked=2013
Send me a reminder if I forget. There is no mapping yet though in my system. (and no sonde diagram yet, I was rewriting that and it is hardly started yet.)

If you really want the raw flight level data from the GlobalHawk, you can access this for NASA872 for example:
http://128.102.154.87/dashlite/dash.php ... npCallback

Look for the current mission number, usually the latest numbered "mb_XXXX", although it is not always at the end of the file.

Then plug that number into here ("mb_1849" for the latest mission for example):
/dashlite/dash.php?ID=mb_1849&ACTION=GET_FLIGHT_TRACK_BY_ID&callback=dojo.io.script.jsonp_dojoIoScript4._jsonpCallback

Purposefully left off the first part of the link so people who don't really want to see the data don't click it. It is a very large file. (1.2mb for that latest file) One day I might process something like that on a delayed basis, but too large of a file, and not of as much use, to constantly try downloading that file in real time and create it for Google Earth. (and too many data points too, which would be the major issue) I will eventually, next year, have the data appear in my Google Earth system. The sonde decoder was just rewritten completely and I'm not prepared to make that the default decoder yet in my operational system and the experimental developmental version of my decoder is not ready to process data in real time yet. Hopefully in mid 2014.

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Off topic from that, I also manually add raw AXBT data for NOAA missions that have AXBT data here:
http://tropicalatlantic.com/noaa-aoc/im ... ?path=AXBT
(Then you can process it in my manual decoder.) And eventually I may have Air Force AXBT data on a much more delayed basis but that someone in the Navy has to send me and I may still have to create another decoder for that too.

[cycloneye]

Here is a site where the flight path is seen but none of the instrument or dropsonde data.

Experimentally, after the mission is over I add the GlobalHawk dropsonde data here manually if I remember:
http://www.tropicalatlantic.com/recon/r ... asked=2013
Send me a reminder if I forget. There is no mapping yet though in my system. (and no sonde diagram yet, I was rewriting that and it is hardly started yet.)

If you really want the raw flight level data from the GlobalHawk, you can access this for NASA872 for example:
http://128.102.154.87/dashlite/dash.php ... npCallback

Look for the current mission number, usually the latest numbered "mb_XXXX", although it is not always at the end of the file.

Then plug that number into here ("mb_1849" for the latest mission for example):
/dashlite/dash.php?ID=mb_1849&ACTION=GET_FLIGHT_TRACK_BY_ID&callback=dojo.io.script.jsonp_dojoIoScript4._jsonpCallback

Purposefully left off the first part of the link so people who don't really want to see the data don't click it. It is a very large file. (1.2mb for that latest file) One day I might process something like that on a delayed basis, but too large of a file, and not of as much use, to constantly try downloading that file in real time and create it for Google Earth. (and too many data points too, which would be the major issue) I will eventually, next year, have the data appear in my Google Earth system. The sonde decoder was just rewritten completely and I'm not prepared to make that the default decoder yet in my operational system and the experimental developmental version of my decoder is not ready to process data in real time yet. Hopefully in mid 2014.

------------------

Off topic from that, I also manually add raw AXBT data for NOAA missions that have AXBT data here:
http://tropicalatlantic.com/noaa-aoc/im ... ?path=AXBT
(Then you can process it in my manual decoder.) And eventually I may have Air Force AXBT data on a much more delayed basis but that someone in the Navy has to send me and I may still have to create another decoder for that too.

Thank you Chris for bringing all about the Global Hawk.

[Dave]

2 PM TWO...

70%-70%


SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE
LOCATED OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN BAY OF CAMPECHE HAVE BECOME BETTER
ORGANIZED OVER THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS. ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
APPEAR CONDUCIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT WHILE THE SYSTEM MOVES WESTWARD
NEAR 10 MPH...AND A TROPICAL DEPRESSION COULD FORM BEFORE THE
SYSTEM REACHES THE COAST OF THE STATE OF VERACRUZ MEXICO TONIGHT OR
MONDAY. THIS SYSTEM HAS A HIGH CHANCE...70 PERCENT...OF BECOMING A
TROPICAL CYCLONE DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS...AND A HIGH CHANCE...70
PERCENT...OF BECOMING A TROPICAL CYCLONE DURING THE NEXT 5 DAYS.
INTERESTS IN THE STATE OF VERACRUZ MEXICO SHOULD MONITOR THE
PROGRESS OF THIS DISTURBANCE. AN AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE
HUNTER AIRCRAFT IS SCHEDULED TO INVESTIGATE THE SYSTEM LATER THIS
AFTERNOON.

[Dave]

AF 308 on the runway waiting for takeoff to Invest 95L

000
URNT15 KNHC 251743
AF308 01BBA INVEST HDOB 01 20130825
173500 3024N 08855W 0209 ///// 0210 +279 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
173530 3024N 08855W 0209 ///// 0210 +281 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
173600 3024N 08855W 0209 ///// 0209 +286 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
173630 3024N 08855W 0209 ///// 0209 +289 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
173700 3024N 08855W 0209 ///// 0210 +286 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
173730 3024N 08855W 0209 ///// 0210 +292 +288 360000 000 /// /// 23
173800 3024N 08855W 0209 ///// 0210 +287 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
173830 3024N 08855W 0209 ///// 0210 +277 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
173900 3024N 08855W 0209 ///// //// +278 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
173930 3024N 08855W 0209 ///// //// +277 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
174000 3024N 08855W 0209 ///// //// +283 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
174030 3024N 08855W 0209 ///// //// +284 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
174100 3024N 08855W 0211 ///// //// +276 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
174130 3024N 08855W 0210 ///// //// +269 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
174200 3024N 08855W 0211 ///// //// +270 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
174230 3024N 08855W 0211 ///// //// +269 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
174300 3024N 08855W 0211 ///// //// +268 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
174330 3024N 08855W 0211 ///// //// +270 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
174400 3024N 08855W 0211 ///// //// +272 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
174430 3024N 08855W 0211 ///// //// +279 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
$$
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[Dave]

Still on runway...

000
URNT15 KNHC 251753
AF308 01BBA INVEST HDOB 02 20130825
174500 3024N 08855W 0211 ///// //// +279 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
174530 3024N 08855W 0211 ///// //// +278 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
174600 3024N 08855W 0211 ///// //// +281 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
174630 3024N 08855W 0211 ///// //// +278 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
174700 3024N 08855W 0209 ///// //// +278 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
174730 3024N 08855W 0211 ///// //// +288 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
174800 3024N 08855W 0211 ///// //// +292 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
174830 3024N 08855W 0209 ///// 0210 +294 +292 360000 000 /// /// 23
174900 3024N 08855W 0211 ///// 0210 +294 +292 360000 000 /// /// 23
174930 3024N 08855W 0210 ///// //// +288 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
175000 3024N 08855W 0209 ///// //// +289 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
175030 3024N 08855W 0210 ///// 0210 +293 +292 360000 000 /// /// 23
175100 3024N 08855W 0211 ///// //// +287 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
175130 3024N 08855W 0211 ///// //// +283 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
175200 3024N 08855W 0210 ///// //// +284 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
175230 3024N 08855W 0209 ///// //// +284 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
175300 3024N 08855W 0209 ///// 0210 +293 +291 360000 000 /// /// 25
175330 3024N 08856W 0210 ///// 0210 +289 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
175400 3024N 08856W 0209 ///// //// +283 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
175430 3024N 08856W 0209 ///// //// +280 //// 360000 000 /// /// 25
$$
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[Dave]

Still showing no takeoff...still on runway a 2:17 pm edt

[Hammy]

I've seen them cancelled on runway before, I'm wondering if they decided it was too close to shore.

[Hurricaneman]

I've seen them cancelled on runway before, I'm wondering if they decided it was too close to shore.

Might be the case

[Dave]

I've seen them cancelled on runway before, I'm wondering if they decided it was too close to shore.

Might be the case

In doing this for 7 years I've probably seen everything including all the above. (including equipment failures)

[brunota2003]

I hope they took off and it is just a comms problem they are working on enroute. I'm really curious what they would find on this flight. How strong are the winds? Is there a tight LLC, or a broad circulation only? Questions only recon can truthfully answer!

[brunota2003]

Did they make it into the air? Did they have to switch planes due to malfunctioning equipment? Is something blocking the runway? Was the flight canceled as they were taxiing out? Stay tuned to next season's episodes of Hurricane Hunters, where we delve into the mystery of the flight known as Teal 70!

[Dave]

I hope they took off and it is just a comms problem they are working on enroute. I'm really curious what they would find on this flight. How strong are the winds? Is there a tight LLC, or a broad circulation only? Questions only recon can truthfully answer!

I don't know Tim, looking at the radar there's not much turning space down there now although I've seen them leave hdobs off until they approach the system too. I'm watching all sources for updates or cancellations and it's all quiet.

Even with a comm problem they usually can send out a Recco message and nothing updated on it either.

Something else, read that 2 pm two, it says "later this afternoon"...that could mean a center fix at 5 to 6 pm which would hold take off to a later time. Because of the distance they'd only make 2 maybe 3 passes only as it is.

[Dave]

000
NOUS42 KNHC 251658
REPRPD
WEATHER RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHTS
CARCAH, NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER, MIAMI, FL.
0100 PM EDT SUN 25 AUGUST 2013
SUBJECT: TROPICAL CYCLONE PLAN OF THE DAY (TCPOD)
VALID 26/1100Z TO 27/1100Z AUGUST 2013
TCPOD NUMBER.....13-085

I. ATLANTIC REQUIREMENTS
1. BAY OF CAMPECHE
FLIGHT ONE -- TEAL 71
A. 26/1500Z
B. AFXXX 0206A CYCLONE
C. 26/1200Z
D. 21.0N 97.0W
E. 26/1430Z TO 26/1800Z
F. SFC TO 10,000 FT

2. OUTLOOK FOR SUCCEEDING DAY.....NEGATIVE.

[Alyono]

so today's recon cancelled and a new one tomorrow morning?