CLEX-9 October 11th, 2001 Operations

Synopsis

• The CLEX-9 forecast team has decided to stand down all operations for Thursday, October 11th.
  
  
• Weather Forecast (made at 1530 MDT 10/10/01):

  
            Ridging over the primary operations area will continue the drying aloft 
            with RH values forecast to be 10-20% tomorrow morning with downward 
            forcing throughout the day.
   
            In the longer term... the operations area should come under the influence 
            of the next trough from the Pacific Northwest on Friday morning.   Models 
            are in agreement with both timing and intensity of this trough, bringing 
            moisture and upward forcing over central Nebraska by 12Z Friday.   The 
            only fly in the ointment might be precipitation (similar to the system 
            on Tuesday) ... but right now it looks like, at a minimum, it should be 
            a good day to schedule a shorter "shakedown" mission to make sure all of 
            the procedures are working properly...
  
            Don/Jim/Adam
  
  

Sunrise Information for North Platte, NE

Sunrise   
                     Central Daylight Time          

Begin civil twilight       7:22 a.m.                 
Sunrise                    7:50 a.m.                 
Sun transit                1:30 p.m.                 
Sunset                     7:10 p.m.                 
End civil twilight         7:38 p.m.                 

Weather Details

1200Z 500 mb Map



1215Z GOES IR Image


 

Aircraft Operations

• No UW King Air Operations

North Platte, NE Ground Operations

• Ground Instrument Status: The status of the instrumentation at North Platte on Oct. 11 is:
• NOAA microwave radiometer has been returned to operational status as far as can be determined at the moment. Displayed values appear nominal and files are being written to disk.
• Micro Pulse Lidar: No data were taken today
• Interferometer: No IR specta collected today
• Sondes: No sondes launched today
• Surface Radiation: Data were collected by the surface radiation station and appear normal; see plot below.
  
  
  North Platte Surface Radiation Plot for 10/11/01
  
  
  
  

Data Collection Highlights:

• Summary: Nothing to report