Non-Tasked Aerial Reconnaissance for the North Atlantic in 2021

Non-Tasked Data: 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023

Main Archive Pages: 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023

Other basins with non-tasked data in 2021: East & Central Pacific | West Pacific

< Return to the main archive page for the Atlantic in 2021

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.

December

Date	Mission Identifier	Aircraft	Product(s)
Dec. 22nd	Train	N42RF	High Density, Dropsonde, Recco
Dec. 3rd	Train	N42RF	High Density
Dec. 2nd	Train	N42RF	High Density

November

Date	Mission Identifier	Agency	Aircraft	Product(s)	Map
Nov. 29th	Train		N42RF	High Density

October

Date	Mission Identifier	Agency	Aircraft	Product(s)	Map
Oct. 27th	Train		N42RF	High Density
Oct. 13th	Xbandtest		AF303	High Density

September

Date	Mission Identifier	Aircraft	Product(s)
Sep. 30th	Train	N43RF	High Density
Sep. 30th	Train	N42RF	High Density
Sep. 28th	Train	N49RF	High Density
Sep. 26th	Train	N43RF	High Density
Sep. 26th	Sam Miss. #WB	N42RF	High Density, Vortex, Dropsonde
Sep. 26th	Sam Miss. #WA	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Sep. 23rd	Train	N49RF	High Density
Sep. 23rd	Train	N42RF	High Density
Sep. 22nd	Train	N43RF	High Density
Sep. 17th	Train	N42RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Sep. 15th	Train	N42RF	High Density
Sep. 13th	Train	N42RF	High Density
Sep. 9th	Train	N49RF	High Density
Sep. 9th	Train	N43RF	High Density
Sep. 8th	Larry Miss. #WE	N43RF	High Density, Vortex, Dropsonde, Recco
Sep. 7th	Larry Miss. #WD	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Sep. 6th	Larry Miss. #WC	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Sep. 6th	Larry Miss. #WB	N43RF	High Density, Vortex, Dropsonde
Sep. 5th	Train	N43RF	High Density
Sep. 5th	Train	N42RF	High Density
Sep. 5th	Larry Miss. #WA	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Sep. 4th	Train	N49RF	High Density

August

Date	Mission Identifier	Aircraft	Product(s)
Aug. 29th	Ida Miss. #WC	N42RF	High Density, Dropsonde, Recco
Aug. 29th	Ida Miss. #WB	N43RF	High Density, Vortex, Dropsonde, Recco
Aug. 28th	Ida Miss. #WA	N42RF	High Density, Vortex, Dropsonde, Recco
Aug. 19th	Grace Miss. #WC	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Aug. 17th	Train	N49RF	High Density
Aug. 15th	Grace Miss. #WB	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Aug. 15th	Grace Miss. #WA	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Aug. 13th	Train	N49RF	High Density
Aug. 13th	Train	N43RF	High Density

July

Date	Mission Identifier	Aircraft	Product(s)
Jul. 30th	Train	N43RF	High Density, Dropsonde, Recco
Jul. 22nd	Train	N42RF	High Density, Dropsonde, Recco
Jul. 19th	Train	N49RF	High Density
Jul. 16th	Train	N42RF	High Density, Recco
Jul. 13th	Train	N42RF	High Density
Jul. 9th	Site04	N43RF	High Density
Jul. 8th	Site03	N43RF	High Density
Jul. 2nd	Site02	N43RF	High Density
Jul. 1st	Train	N42RF	High Density

June

Date	Mission Identifier	Aircraft	Product(s)
Jun. 30th	Site01	N43RF	High Density
Jun. 25th	Train	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Jun. 15th	Train	N43RF	High Density
Jun. 3rd	Train	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde

May

Date	Mission Identifier	Aircraft	Product(s)
May 28th	Train	N42RF	High Density, Dropsonde
May 26th	Train	N42RF	High Density, Dropsonde, Recco
May 3rd	Train	N43RF	High Density, Recco

April

Date	Mission Identifier	Agency	Aircraft	Product(s)	Map
Apr. 30th	Train		N43RF	High Density, Dropsonde, Recco

March

Date	Mission Identifier	Agency	Aircraft	Product(s)	Map
Mar. 12th	Train		N42RF	High Density
Mar. 11th	Train		N42RF	High Density, Recco

February

Date	Mission Identifier	Aircraft	Product(s)
Feb. 20th	Train	N49RF	High Density
Feb. 14th	Track66 Miss. #05	AF303	High Density, Dropsonde, Recco
Feb. 8th	Train	N42RF	High Density

January

Date	Mission Identifier	Aircraft	Product(s)
Jan. 31st	Track62 Miss. #04	AF309	High Density
Jan. 24th	Iop04 Miss. #03	N49RF	High Density, Dropsonde
Jan. 19th	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.