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HEADQUARTERS

JOINT TASK FORCE SEVEN

APO 437

San Francisco, California

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6 June 1956
SEMINOLE

ENIWETOK OBSERVED WEATHER FOR 6 JUNE 1956

AT DETONATION TIME 1255M

Sea Level Pressure

1010.5 mbs

Free Air Surface Temperature
Wet Bulb Temperature

Dew Point Temperature

86 .9°F
79 .2F

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Relative Humidity

76.59

71.0% ».

Surface Wind
Visibility

cLOUDS

095° at 11 knots
Over 10 Miles

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2/10 cumlus; bases estimated at 1500 ft, tops estimated below LOOS*ft.
1/10 stratocumlus; bases estimated at 3500 ft, tops below 4000 ft.
No middle clouds.

7/10 cirrostratus;3 estimted at 30,000 ft; very thin (all transparent).
AREA WEATHER SUMMARY FROM AIRCRAFT REPORTS
Small scattered cumius in area 100 miles to the east and as far north
and south as the eye could see from 8,000 ft. Tops seemed to increase near

Eniwetok to 3500-4000 ft. and total 3/8 sky coverage outside lagoon.
towering cumulus observed.

No

Appeared to be a line of scattered cumilus about

15 miles north of the atoll with tops rising to 6-8,000 ft.
observed,

No showers

STATE OF SEA
Ocean Side:

Lagoon Side:

Wave heights 4 feet, period 6 seconds, direction 090°.

Wave heights about 1 foot,

ENIIETOK UPPERATR SOUNDING (060000Z)

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‘Pressure

(Killibars)
1000

850
700

Height

(Feet)
340

4,980
10,360

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Temperature

—(2c)
2705

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DHA
Dew Point

(2c)
22.2

18.2
09.2

10.8
02,2

600

wi5i0
19 ,260

07.5

-20,2

347

28,281

-2h.5

-37.8

500

02.2

H14.5

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