Non-Tasked Aerial Reconnaissance for the Eastern North Pacific & Central North Pacific in 2016

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This page contains missions that usually have not been tasked by the National Hurricane Center. However, some missions into tropical cyclones do appear here, such as research missions. You will also find winter missions on this page.

August

Date	Mission Identifier	Aircraft	Product(s)
Aug. 30th	Train	N677F	Dropsonde
Aug. 9th	Javier Miss. #WB	N43RF	High Density, Vortex, Dropsonde, Recco
Aug. 9th	Javier Miss. #WA	N43RF	High Density, Vortex, Dropsonde, Recco

March

Date	Mission Identifier	Aircraft	Product(s)
Mar. 11th	El Nino Rapid Response 22	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Mar. 9th	El Nino Rapid Response 21	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Mar. 7th	El Nino Rapid Response 20	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Mar. 4th	El Nino Rapid Response 19	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Mar. 2nd	El Nino Rapid Response 18	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Mar. 1st	El Nino Rapid Response 17	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde

February

Date	Mission Identifier	Aircraft	Product(s)
Feb. 28th	El Nino Rapid Response 16	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Feb. 27th	El Nino Rapid Response 15	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Feb. 22nd	El Nino Rapid Response 3 with Global Hawk	NA872	Dropsonde
Feb. 22nd	El Nino Rapid Response 2 with Global Hawk	NA872	Dropsonde
Feb. 22nd	El Nino Rapid Response 1 with Global Hawk	NA872	Dropsonde
Feb. 22nd	El Nino Rapid Response 14	N49RF	High Density
Feb. 22nd	Track99 Miss. #06	AF302	High Density, Dropsonde, Recco
Feb. 22nd	Track99 Miss. #05	AF309	High Density, Dropsonde, Recco
Feb. 19th	El Nino Rapid Response 13	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Feb. 18th	El Nino Rapid Response 12	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Feb. 17th	El Nino Rapid Response 11	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Feb. 16th	El Nino Rapid Response 10	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Feb. 16th	Track99 Miss. #04	AF302	High Density, Dropsonde, Recco
Feb. 16th	Track99 Miss. #03	AF309	High Density, Dropsonde, Recco
Feb. 15th	El Nino Rapid Response 9	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Feb. 15th	El Nino Rapid Response 2 with Global Hawk	NA872	Dropsonde
Feb. 14th	Track99 Miss. #02	AF302	High Density, Dropsonde, Recco
Feb. 14th	Track99 Miss. #01	AF309	High Density, Dropsonde, Recco
Feb. 13th	El Nino Rapid Response 8	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Feb. 12th	El Nino Rapid Response 1 with Global Hawk	NA872	Dropsonde
Feb. 6th	El Nino Rapid Response 8	N49RF	High Density
Feb. 4th	El Nino Rapid Response 7	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Feb. 3rd	El Nino Rapid Response 6	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde

January

Date	Mission Identifier	Aircraft	Product(s)
Jan. 31st	El Nino Rapid Response 5	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Jan. 30th	El Nino Rapid Response 4	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Jan. 27th	El Nino Rapid Response 3	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Jan. 26th	El Nino Rapid Response 2	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Jan. 22nd	El Nino Rapid Response 1	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Jan. 21st	Train	N49RF	High Density
Jan. 20th	Train	N49RF	High Density

All times and dates on this page are in Zulu time.

Non-tasked Air Force missions, other than winter storm tracks, usually have a 15 digit number for an identifier. (and sometimes 11 digits) Sometimes they might drop a single sonde or two and have a few non-tropical RECCO messages. Long term, this data is likely less important than other data. Missions with an 11 or 15 digit identifier are automatically deleted after 21 days.