OPERATION SANDSTONE DATE:
TIME:

PPG time
1 May 1948
0609

TOTAL YIELD:

Yoke

GMT
30 Apr 1948
1809

Sponsor:
SITE:

49 kt

LASL

PPG - Eniwetok - Sally

11°
162°

«37'
#19'

Site elevation:

HEIGHT OF BURST:

N
E

Sea level

200 ft

TYPE OF BURST AND PLACEMENT:
Tower burst over coral soil

2258

FIREBALL DATA:
Time to lst minimum:
Time to nd maximum:
Radius to end maximum:

~4o"
27"

CLOUD TOP HEIGHT:

CLOUD BOTTOM HEIGHT:
CRATERDATA:

56,000 ft MSL

35,000 ft MSL

Not available

REMARKS:
No fallout pattern available.
Cloud renched tropopause in 12
minutes.
Yoke rain-out was observed on Kwajalein at H+36 hours;
rain fell for 10 hours and the maximum activity observed was 6 to

10 mr/hr.

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