Hurricane Hunters Recon Jet Flight Over Katrina (Aug 26, 2005)

Video from a reconaissance flight I was on with chaser Jim Edds on August 26, 2005 flying around and over hurricane "Katrina" as it was intensifying in the SE Gulf Of Mexico after crossing S Florida. This a couple of days before it came ashore in the northern Gulf coast (devastating New Orleans and the LA / MS coast). The flight is ran by NOAA's "Hurricane Hunters" out of Mac Dill Air Force Base near Tampa. FL. The aircraft is a modified Gulfstream IV that flies at about 45,000 feet and releases instruments (dropsondes) into the storm environment. The video is a sampler taken from the "Hurricane Chasing 2005" DVD project. Please note that this video is solely for viewing. Please contact the chasers / parties involved for any licensing / usage.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Storm
• Hurricane
• Hunters
• Recon
• NOAA
• Katrina
• Tropical
• Cyclones
• Eye
• Eyewall
• Gulfstream
• Jet

[azurerail1]

I have been Through a Tropical Cyclone in Australia Where i live called ULUI , a Category 3 System. Waching a Cyclone from Above in this Video, i now have a new sense of what i Experienced in Ului as being something that we Humans and all our Technology can not stop, and perhaps in our Future maybe we could Influence a Cyclone with Technology and understanding, but i Feel we will never control the Essence of a Tropical Cyclone. Only those few who have been in a Cyclone,know the terror they are.

[tiismuna]

astig



[hairysaccs]

its called macdill not mcdill

[mcass777]

Interesting video but your titles come and go WAY to quickly. Let me read AND see what is going on.

[greenbeagle13]

Yikes, that plane looks awfully teeny-tiny to be flying into those things. I'd be sick as a dog trying to read and write in all that bumpiness. Hats off to the guys that do this type of work.

[madzane94]

Clouds at 60,000 ft. WHOA..

Didn't know hurricane reached that far up

[Snickerbarify]

must have been scary