010529 -- Case Summary
Flight Times: 1939 - 2248

ANVIL CASE DAY

Attenuation Times for 010529:     1950 to 2005

Convection appeared over much of 
FL. By mid-afternoon it reached us on the east coast; the plane took off
around 1540. 
The storm with a short attached anvil moved from west of KSC, over KSC
and then out over the water until out of radar range. It became more
coherent and unicellular as it moved more off shore maintaining
coherence for several hours. The continuity was probably a result of a
short wave which moved through the area.
We were able to get in position to catch cells forming over
the KSC FM network, which developed anvils and then moved out over the
Atlantic. The storm maintained a single cell that persisted the whole
flight. We suspect it was long-lived due to the short wave that passed
through. The anvil was too short to fly toward the core, so we made
several passes across the anvil at various distances from the active
convection. The plane landed around 1845.

Many good passes across the anvil in roughly E/W directions. E fields in
stronger reflectivity regions maintained strength throughout the study.