NOTES for 23 June 2000, flight 1

Nov. 6, 2002

Large, complex, highly active system with no distinct anvil

NOTE: 74C radar would have had wet radome attenuation after ~1645
and perhaps precip. attenuation to the West before 1645.

System formed just to the NW of and over KSC from merger of two
highly electrified storms, becoming a major complex over
E central Florida by 1800
CAPPI w L 1800-1802

A/C made penetrations mostly through active regions of the complex
with strong E fields.

From 1720 to 1730 the A/C investigated a small cell to the N of the
main complex. At first the fields were strong and even some LDAR
flashes in the cell, but after ~1731 E fields were weak. 

CAPPI with L 1725-1728
MER 1720-1730
MER 1730-1740

Closure of PAFB by the storm complex forced landing at Vero Beach.



Flight 2 was only a short Ferry Flight back from Vero Beach.
Data Systems were not turned on.