![]() ![]() The Hurricane Hunter crew entered the hurricane's eye in the WC-130J Hercules at 5,000 feet when the storm was located 130 miles off Mexico's coast. Hurricane Alex became the first Atlantic-based hurricane to enter the Gulf of Mexico in June since 1995, as well as the first since the oil spill that followed the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20. The dropsonde, along with the stepped-frequency microwave radiometer, gathered information on the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. The powerful storm, the strongest June hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. since 1966, came ashore late in the evening of June 29 on an unpopulated stretch of coast in northern Mexico about 110 miles south of Brownsville, Texas.Īlex reached Category 2 classification on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale with sustained winds of 105 miles per hour, and spawned tornadoes in southern Texas.Īs the Hurricane Hunter crew flew into the hurricane's eyewall, Senior Airman Jenna Daniel delivered a cylindrical object into the heart of the storm. By the time the crew returned from more than seven hours inside the storm, the data they gathered showed signs the storm was growing stronger even as it approached landfall. ![]() (AFNS) - Hours before an aircrew from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron left for an after-midnight flight into Hurricane Alex, the storm had just been upgraded from a tropical storm to a hurricane. ![]()
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