February 22nd:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Observation Region: North Base in Norman, Oklahoma Miles Traveled: 10.5 Duration: 30 minutes Significant Events: a lot of CG lightning to the west heavy rain pea-sized hail

March 21st:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Location: Eastern Oklahoma Miles Traveled: 397.5 Duration: 6 hours Significant Events: midlevel funnel from LP supercell other funnels observed quarter-sized hail core punched through HP supercell

March 24th:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Location: Southeastern Oklahoma Miles Traveled: 155.3 Duration: 5 hours Significant Events time-lapse footage of cumulus marginally severe storms

April 10th:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Location: Central Kansas Miles traveled: 616.9 Duration: 12.5 hours Significant Events: several mushy storms intercepted tornado warnings issued

April 20th:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Location: Western Norman, OK Miles Traveled: 38 Duration: 1 hour Significant Events: a few CG lightning strikes to the south anvil crawlers

April 21st:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Location: Northeastern Kansas Miles traveled: 942 Duration: 17 hours Significant Events: observed the entire life-cycle of a supercell strong rotation well-defined funnel and wall cloud quarter-sized hail

April 25th:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Location: North-Central Texas Miles Traveled: 692.9 Duration: 12 hours Significant Events: intercepted two supercells golfball-sized hail well defined wall clouds with rain curtains rivers of hail! ~1 inch hail accumulation

May 7th:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Location: Panhandle of Texas Miles Traveled: 630 Duration: 14.5 hours Significant Events: BUST windmill and sunset photos

May 12th:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Location: South-Central Texas Panhandle Miles Traveled: 724.6 Duration: 15.5 hours Significant Events: magnificent HP supercell incredible inflow very strong areas of rotation many wall clouds and funnels numerous long-lived, debris-filled gustnadoes observed a brief tornado observed a F2 tornado at very close range grapefruit sized hail sustained heavy damage to vehicle

May 21st:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Location: South-Western Nebraska Miles Traveled: 1,005 Duration: 2 days Significant Events: BUST blown tire in Salina, KS due to deer carcass first time in Nebraska ate lunch in Wahoo, NE

May 31st:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie, Rachael Sigler and Matt Gaffner Location: Central Texas Panhandle Miles Traveled: 1045 Duration: 19 hrs Significant Events: intercepted a dust devil with the vehicle intercepted a supercell southwest of Amarillo, TX retreated into hailcore due to flooded road broke a side-mirror (again) in quarter-sized hail

June 2nd:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Location: East-Central Colorado Miles Traveled: 943.1 Duration: 2 days Significant Events: amazing stacked-plate structure well-formed inflow tail first Colorado chase

June 3rd:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Location: Central Oklahoma Miles Traveled: 423.9 Duration: 9.5 hours Significant Events: worlds largest pallasite meteorite(Greensburg, KS) worlds largest hand-dug well(Greensburg, KS) drove through hurricaine-like bands of precip observed multicell cluster in central Oklahoma

June 4th:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Location: North-East Kansas Miles Traveled: 820 Duration: 2 days Significant Events: high CAPE, low inhibition setup very few organized storms multicell structures

June 5th:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Location: Norman, OK Miles Traveled: 0 Duration: N/A Significant Events: pretty mamatus with the sunset!

June 9th:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Location: Extreme South-West Kansas Miles Traveled: 610 Duration: 16 hrs Significant Events: observed transition from LP to HP supercell measured baseball-sized hailstones observed several wallclouds and funnels observed 2 tornadoes captured spectacular lightning pictures

June 10th:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Location: North-West Texas Miles Traveled: 635 Duration: 12 hrs Significant Events: torrential rain observed severe flooding of roadways observed rapid rising and swelling of a river

June 12th:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Location: North-West Texas Miles Traveled: 798.2 Duration: 16.5 hrs Significant Events: observed 1 tornado golfball-sized hail frequent CG lightning observed numerous wallclouds followed long-lived (45min-1hr) wall cloud

June 13th:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Location: East-Central Oklahoma Miles Traveled: 72.2 Duration: 2.5 hrs Significant Events: supercell initialized over Norman, OK observed weak coudbase rotation observed coldpool establishment

June 15th:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie, Rachael Sigler, and Eric Nguyen Location: North Base in Norman, Oklahoma Miles Traveled: 10.5 Duration: ~1 hr Significant Events: destructive wind event

August 14th:

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Crew: Rachael Sigler Location: Norman, OK Miles Traveled: N/A Duration: ~15 minutes Significant Events: pretty sunset

September 13th:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Location: West North Texas Miles Traveled: 413 Duration: 7.5 hrs Significant Events: experianced high winds observed one brief funnel cloud

October 19th:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Location: National Weather Center, Norman, OK Miles Traveled: 10 Duration: ~1 hr Significant Events: Close CG

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