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1. How much time has the WC-130 been in the air as it enters the eye-wall for the 3rd time?

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2. Fuel on board an aircraft is always under continuous watch. How much fuel will the WC-130 burn before making it's first penetration into the eye of the storm?

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3. How much fuel remained onboard the aircraft as it entered the eye-wall for the 3rd time?

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4. The WC-130 remains in the eye of the hurricane for 3 more hours after its 3rd flight in and then leaves for its return flight home. Considering fuel remaining and the direction Opal is heading, to which of the airfields' should the aircraft return? (Note:The aircraft must return to the airfield with at least enough fuel to circle it for 1.5 hours.)

• Jacksonville NAS, Florida - located at 30 degrees 13 min north / 81 degrees 53 min west
• Corpus Christi NAS, Texas - located at 27 degrees 42 min. north / 97 degrees 17 min. west
• Tinker AFB, Oklahoma - located at 35 degrees 25 min, north / 97 degrees 23 min. west
• MacDill AFB, Florida - located at 27 degrees 51 min. north / 82 degrees 31 min west

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5. What is the current "eye" position of the hurricane and the WC-130 when it leaves for home after its 3rd flight into the storm? (Note: the hurricane has been steadily traveling towards the Pensacola area while the WC-130 has been taking measurements.)

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6. If Hurricane Opal continues on its current track, at what time (CDT) can the residents of Pensacola, Florida expect the "eye" to make landfall. Use the time the hunters first entered the eye as the basis for the calculation. Also consider that the hurricane is traveling straight towards the Pensacola location from this initial position.

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7. The National Hurricane Center is interested in knowing the location of several of the greater (meaning areas with the coldest cloud tops) thunderstorm cell development. Provide three different x,y coordinates from the satellite image titled iropal.tif.

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8. If each pixel covers an area of 4 sq km, how many sq km are affected by thunderstorms?

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9. What are the temperatures (Degree Fahrenheit) of the clouds at the following positions? If using NIH software use the first listed coordinates, if using Scion Software use the second set of coordinates in each listing :

9a (48,146) (48, 239)______________

9b. (66,211) (66, 174) ____________

9c. (97,73) (97, 312)______________

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