Air Force Major Jeffrey Mitchell works the controls navigating through hurricane Florence on a Hurricane Hunters mission out of Savanah Air National Guard Base, Savanah, GA Airport, September 13, 2018. The Air Force Reserve 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, or Hurricane Hunters, is conducting a storm tasking mission into Hurricane Florence using a WC-130J Hercules, currently a category 2 storm. The flight tasking provides critical and timely weather data for the National Hurricane Center to assist in providing up-to-date and accurate information for storm forecasts.

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