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An Operational Ferecast will be made 60 to 72 hours before each

rehearsal or actual shot. This forecast will be the one given by the Staff

Weather Officer to the Commander, Joint Task Force SEVEN and staff during
briefings. All necessary revisions will be made and issued to all using
agencies up to approximately shot time minus six (6) hours, This forecast
will include:
a.

Upper Wind Forecast for the Shot Island:

Direction and speed of

the wind at 2,000-foot intervals from the surface to 20,000 feet and 5,000=foot

intervals from 20,000 to 80,000 feet.
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Cloud Trajectory Forecast:

These cloud trajectory forecasts will

be made for shot time plus 2h, lS, and 72 hours,

Ce. State of the Atmosphere Above the Tropopause:
height of and temperature at the tropopause at shot time.

A forecast of the

d. Local Area Terminal Forecast: This is for a period of 2h hours
with a further outlook for the following 48 hours of amounts and bases and tops
of clouds, visibility, surface maximum and minimum temperatures, precipitation,
winds at all levels up to 60,000 feet and sea swells and wave action.

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