An Air Force Reserve Lieutenant Colonel with the Hurricane Hunters sits in the pilots seat and prepares for the next mission into hurricane Florance, Sep. 11, 2018 out of Savanah Air National Guard base, Georgia. The Air Force Reserve 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, or Hurricane Hunters, (departs for/ returns from / conducts) a storm tasking mission into Hurricane Florence, currently a category 4 storm. The taskings provide weather data for the National Hurricane Center to assist in providing up-to-date and accurate information for storm forecasts.

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