010607 -- Case Summary 
Flight Times: 1717 - 2027

There was no attenuation of the 74C radar during this flight.

The satellite photos show a broad area of convection over and to
the west of Kennedy Space Center. The A/C worked two different regions
of this complex cluster of small but moderate intensity cells which had
radar tops at times to 15 km and produced lots of lightning. Case 1 was
flown for the most part directly over Kennedy Space Center and the
surface field mill network. Passes were made in and out of very active
cells in which lightning frequently occurred. Aircraft passes were made
first at 7 km and then the aircraft descended to make passes below the
active convection at 1.5 km. The E field measurements from these passes
should be interesting to compare with the Surface E fields from the KSC
network.


Case 1 (~1737 to ~1935)

There was quite a bit of lightning in the earlier stages of the flight.

The first case (~1740 to 1820) was a decaying cell with debris north of
KSC which becomes attached to new developing cells over KSC 

Lightning strike to the Citation at 17:46:25 on the south end of a
growing line of cells.

A storm north of KSC was developing an
anvil southward. The plane headed for the anvil, but was held just short
and just below by ATC. 

First case was followed by a spiral down to 5 kft from 18:20 -18:40 for
passes over the KSC network for E change comparisons with the surface E
mill network. However, cells over SLF made it hard to fly over the
network. 

 This case is good for comparison with KSC Sfc Field Mills 

Case 2 (~1936 to 2007): passes in stratiform debris with embedded cells 
From 19:10 to ~1935 started with passes from NNW to SSE at
23 kft in and over stratiform debris with embedded convection, strong
Efield. Reflectivity gradients usually pretty sharp.

case 3: Late decay stage of detached anvil 
	This used to be the convection that created the anvil in Case 2
The third case was a decaying detached anvil east of KSC with excellent
measurements between 19:38 - 20:03 UTC. The last lightning from this
storm was approximately 90 minutes earlier. Made N-S passes first at FL
250 and then at FL 210. E field was very weak.