{"id":50926,"date":"2023-03-06T19:07:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T19:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=50926"},"modified":"2023-03-07T13:51:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T13:51:13","slug":"turbulence-aboard-lufthansa-flight-469-from-austin-tx-to-frankfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/50926","title":{"rendered":"Turbulence aboard Lufthansa flight 469 from Austin TX to Frankfort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the CIMSS Satellite Blog mailbag: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This morning Lufthansa flight DLH469 AUS-IAD at FL370 0011Z at 34.9198N 89.5592W turbulence event, with 4 minor injuries. Your product <\/code>(ed. note: The CIMSS Turbulence Product, available here<\/a>) had highlighted the area up pretty well! <\/code> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Flight Log for this Airbus A330, snipped from the FlightAware website<\/a> (direct link<\/a>), below, shows the changes in speed\/altitude that occurred with this event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flight Log of DLH469, 000817 – 001427 UTC on 2 March 2023 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The CIMSS Turbulence product at 0000 UTC, just before that event is shown below. Note that 34.9198o<\/sup>N \/ 89.5592o<\/sup>W is very near the middle of the Mississippi\/Tennessee border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Probability of Moderate-or-Greater (MOG) Turbulence, Flight levels 36000 – 37000 feet, 0000 UTC on 2 March 2023 (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The animation from 2300 UTC on 1 March through 0100 UTC on 2 March, below, shows a general expansion of the area with larger MOG Probabilities along the northern Mississippi border with Tennessee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MOG Probability contours, 2300 UTC on 1 March through 0100 UTC 2 March 2023 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Radar imagery from NQA, shown below (courtesy Don Eick, NTSB), shows the path of the plane into the observed convection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WSR-88D Radar Imagery from KNQA, 0011\/0012 UTC on 2 March 2023 for a scan angle of 9.98o<\/sup> (left) and 12.5o<\/sup> (right). White dots show the plane’s path into the convection (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What did the satellite imagery show for this event? Band 8 (Upper level water vapor, 6.19 \u00b5m) and Band 13 (Clean Window, 10.3 \u00b5m) infrared imagery, below, shows the plane flying through a region of developing convection. How adept are you at picking out the region of convection associated with this turbulence?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GOES-16 Band 8 (Upper Level Water Vapor, 6.19 \u00b5m) and Band 13 (Clean Window, 10.3 \u00b5m) infrared imagery, 2301 UTC on 1 March 2023 through 0101 UTC on 2 March 2023 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The imagery below brackets the time of the convection, and the region of turbulence is circled. The satellite imagery shows multiple convective towers erupting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GOES-16 Band 8 (Upper Level Water Vapor, 6.19 \u00b5m) and Band 13 (Clean Window, 10.3 \u00b5m) infrared imagery, 0006 UTC — 0016 UTC on 2 March 2023; the region where the aircraft encountered turbulence is circled (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The plane diverted to Dulles (KIAD) because of injuries on board. The screencapture below is from an Instagram user<\/a> on board the plane. Flight information from FlightAware shows that the flight continued for about an hour after the turbulence before the diversion to Dulles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Instagram imagery from Camila McConaughey (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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From the CIMSS Satellite Blog mailbag: This morning Lufthansa flight DLH469 AUS-IAD at FL370 0011Z at 34.9198N 89.5592W turbulence event, with 4 minor injuries. Your product (ed. note: The CIMSS Turbulence Product, available here) had highlighted the area up pretty well! The Flight Log for this Airbus A330, snipped from the FlightAware website (direct link), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":50936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation","category-goes-16"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50926"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50956,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50926\/revisions\/50956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}