010610 -- Case Summary 
Flight Times: 1958 - 2346

ANVIL CASE DAY

Attenuation Times for 010610:     2200 to 2300 
    Example of Wet Radome Attenuation

Close comparison between NEXRAD and 74C CAPPIs and especially MER plots
shows severe Wet radome attenuation of 74C.
The 2210 to 2220 MER plots show as much as 20 to 25 dBZ
attenuation of 74C. 
Additionally, some intervening precip. attenuation of 74C may have
occurred from ~2205 to about 2240.


Case 1: A little bit of anvil at 2025, and some low level 
reflectivity at takeoff.
Mostly this time frame is spent around convection with a lot of lightning.
Case 2: Much of this is flown very close to the source.
Case 3: There was lightning associated with this part of the cloud about
2109 and bases are at least down to the 4km level. The last lightning
in this part of the line was about 2130.
Case 4: The aircraft gets close to the source about 2237 and 2240.
Case 5: Animation of this line shows a due-East motion, but if you look at
individual cells there is a slight southern motion.

A line of severe thunderstorms moved north of KSC out over the ocean
putting out extensive debris to the NE. Initially was more like a
stratiform region but part of this area produced an anvil to the SE. The
Citation followed this stratiform debris/anvil from 20:25 to 23:20 UTC.
An excellent case to compare transitions from weak to strong E fields with
reflectivity both aloft and below the aircraft, but is a little complex
meteorologically.