•Successfully completed its deployment on the AFRC DC-8 on June 28, 2017

•Tropical Storm Cindy was observed for several days from its pre-genesis stages in the Caribbean to shortly before its landfall on the Gulf states

•Captured the fine 3-D structure, radial Doppler velocities of the lifecycle of convective processes in the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean and Eastern north Atlantic

•The regimes observed ranged from oceanic deep isolated convection, to shallow warm rain processes (ranging from light to very intense), to widespread stratiform regions with embedded convective activity