STEPS

STEPS
(Severe Thunderstorm Electrification 
and Precipitation Study)

The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology T-28 armored research airplane and its crew of pilots and scientists participated in the STEPS field program from May through July, 2000.  We were based at the Goodland, Kansas, airport, and coordinated our flight activities with the many other observing facilities involved in STEPS, including radars, sounding systems, a lightning mapping array, mobile surface observing systems, and volunteer networks of observers. 

T-28 Research Flights during STEPS 

Flight 747 
(05/25/00) 

Flight 748
 (05/26/00) 

Flight 750 
(06/01/00) 

Flight 751
 (06/03/00) 

Flight 752
 (06/06/00)
Flight 753
 (06/09/00) 

Flight 754
 (06/11/00) 

Flight 755
 (06/12/00) 

Flight 756
 (06/20/00) 

Flight 757
 (06/22/00) 

Flight 758
(06/23/00) 

Flight 759
 (06/25/00) 

Flight 761 
(06/29/00) 

 

 

Air temperature
Vertical winds
Turbulence
Cloud Water
Precipitation
Particle charge
Electric field
Aircraft motion

If you have questions in regard to the content of this page, or would like more information, please e-mail donna.kliche@sdsmt.edu.

If you have questions in regard to the content of this page, or would like more information, please e-mail donna.kliche@sdsmt.edu or andrew.detwiler@sdsmt.edu