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Hurricane Isidore Upgraded to Category 3
Aired September 21, 2002 - 12:41 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
RENAY SAN MIGUEL, CNN ANCHOR: CNN's Jason Bellini is aboard a P- 3 Hurricane Hunter Aircraft being used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And we're going to try to make some contact with him now. They are said to be flying into the eye of Hurricane Isidore.
Jason, can you hear me OK?
JASON BELLINI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I can hear you. I hope you can hear me. We're going right towards the storm. I can see it right in front of us. I'm on the plane with the Hurricane Hunters, heading straight into Hurricane Isidore.
We're going to take measurements to report back to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. They'll be testing the temperature, wind speed, to try to determine where the center of the storm is right now. We have been in the air for about an hour and a half now. It's going to be a large storm clouds, we're probably about five miles -- five or six miles away right now.
SAN MIGUEL: Jason, I don't know if you can hear me or not. But I'm wondering if they have dropped some of those -- what they call drop radio sensors (ph). It's these little devices that they drop through the storm that send all of those readouts on wind speed and pressure and things like that, as they drop toward the ocean, do you know if they have done that already off the P-3?
BELLINI: I just spoke with the meteorologist and she said very shortly they're going to have some results (UNINTELLIGIBLE) They have not yet taken readings because we're still heading towards the storm. We'll be tracking through this storm. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) We will circle around and re-entering into the eye of the hurricane and gathering readings and finding out if there is any movement, which direction it's going.
SAN MIGUEL: OK. Jason Bellini in for what could be the ride of his life. Those rides through hurricanes, on the P-3 Orion Hurricane Hunters can last anywhere from to eight to 10 1/2 hours, as we've been told from the NOAA. But we do thank him for that report.
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Aired September 21, 2002 - 12:41 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
RENAY SAN MIGUEL, CNN ANCHOR: CNN's Jason Bellini is aboard a P- 3 Hurricane Hunter Aircraft being used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And we're going to try to make some contact with him now. They are said to be flying into the eye of Hurricane Isidore.
Jason, can you hear me OK?
JASON BELLINI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I can hear you. I hope you can hear me. We're going right towards the storm. I can see it right in front of us. I'm on the plane with the Hurricane Hunters, heading straight into Hurricane Isidore.
We're going to take measurements to report back to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. They'll be testing the temperature, wind speed, to try to determine where the center of the storm is right now. We have been in the air for about an hour and a half now. It's going to be a large storm clouds, we're probably about five miles -- five or six miles away right now.
SAN MIGUEL: Jason, I don't know if you can hear me or not. But I'm wondering if they have dropped some of those -- what they call drop radio sensors (ph). It's these little devices that they drop through the storm that send all of those readouts on wind speed and pressure and things like that, as they drop toward the ocean, do you know if they have done that already off the P-3?
BELLINI: I just spoke with the meteorologist and she said very shortly they're going to have some results (UNINTELLIGIBLE) They have not yet taken readings because we're still heading towards the storm. We'll be tracking through this storm. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) We will circle around and re-entering into the eye of the hurricane and gathering readings and finding out if there is any movement, which direction it's going.
SAN MIGUEL: OK. Jason Bellini in for what could be the ride of his life. Those rides through hurricanes, on the P-3 Orion Hurricane Hunters can last anywhere from to eight to 10 1/2 hours, as we've been told from the NOAA. But we do thank him for that report.
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