Now that it seems that Isaac has locked onto the NOLA, MS, AL coast...at least we can say that the Hurricane Hunters are flying out of Ellington Field.

Latest HWRF

Recon's fixes of Isaac's center has shown a clear NW track for the last 4 hours...

Product: Air Force Vortex Message (URNT12 KNHC) Transmitted: 27th day of the month at 22:25Z Aircraft: Air Force Aircraft (Last 3 digits of the tail number are 306) Storm Number & Year: 09L in 2012 Storm Name: Isaac (flight in the North Atlantic basin) Mission Number: 27 Observation Number: 18 A...

Recon #27 just punched the center for the 4th time. Position a little more west than north. Vortex to follow.

Recon Mission #27

1st Center Fix Coordinates: 26°07'N 85°59'W (26.1167N 85.9833W)
3rd Center Fix Coordinates: 26°28'N 86°09'W (26.4667N 86.15W)

Distance traveled: 27 miles
Heading: 310-315 degrees (NW)
Speed: Appx. 8 MPH

We are about to have a double recon in Isaac...Recon #28 (P-3 Orion) is about to join Recon #27 (WC-130J)

Recon just punched the center...About 20 miles NNW from the last fix...vortex should be out soon.

SATELLITE DATA INDICATE ISAAC HAS BECOME BETTER ORGANIZED OVER THE
PAST 6 HOURS...really? Starting to look ragged to me, cloud tops are starting warm.

djmike wrote:Ok, the last two posts just lost and confused me.....

I'm following Recon mission #27 live with Tropical Atlantic's Google Earth tracking app. Recon's 2nd fix of Isaac's center was 10 miles North and East of the 1st center fix.

Recon just fixed the center of Isaac...Forward motion at this time has stopped. In appx. 1.5 hours Issac has moved all of 10 miles NNE of its last fix....vortex should be up soon.

Scott...Starting to see some banding reforming to the south and east of where the last recon fix was...Nice to see someone from Freeport on here. Born, raised, and graduated from. Nice to see a neighbor. I'm actually just outside Angleton but use Freeport/Surfside as my tropical home base since I'm...

Scott...Starting to see some banding reforming to the south and east of where the last recon fix was...Nice to see someone from Freeport on here. Born, raised, and graduated from.

Been driving me nuts for the last 3 hours...The long range radar out of Key West shows most of the rain and what seems to be a center of circulation spinning off to the North and West of Dry Tortugas. Yet watching the live recon via Tropical Atlantic's Google Earth app. Recon has fix the centers all...

And the radar out of Key West has Isaac looking like crap...shear and dry air?

Recon Mission #24 is having a hard time finding the center of Isaac. Came in on his SW leg, thought he had it, did a 180 back to the NE, then did another 180 back to the West, and after going out about 90 miles is heading back to the East. Pressure is up to 004mb. Latest Vortex: Product: Air Force V...

skidog40 wrote:its either the keystone light or did i see wsw movement

You can see the COC on the Key West radar...If anything the COC looks to be difting North. A Hurricane hunter and a NOAA P-3 are flying through right now...both are getting center fixes.

Weather station MKRAU, a buoy I think, that is SW of Key West...is showing winds out of the ENE at 63 MPH! Dry Tortugas is showing 37 MPH with gusts to 51.

Recon Mission #21 is outbound of Isaac, heading for home. Last center fix was 24.00N 82.01W. About 40 miles SSW of Key West, FL. Last recon fix was about 20 miles due West of the previous recon fix. Mission #23 "kermit" P-3 Orion on the on way in.