March 28th:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Location: Southern Texas Panhandle Miles Traveled: 576 Duration: 11 hours Significant Events: observed 5 tornados baseball-sized hail

April 11th:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie, Rachael Sigler, and Alan Raymond Observation Region: South-Central Oklahoma Miles Traveled: 144 Duration: 3 hours Significant Events: supercell in South-Central Oklahoma

April 21st:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie, Rachael Sigler, Matt Gaffner, Alan Raymond Location: South Texas Panhandle Miles Traveled: 733 Duration: 12 hours, spent night in AMA Significant Events: observed 4 tornados first tornado lasted about 30 min. second tornado was brief third tornado was multi-vortex fourth tornado was observed on way to AMA amazing rainbow and hail fog first April tornados for all in car Alan's first tornado

May 4th:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Observation Region: South-Central Kansas Miles Traveled: 534 Duration: 12 hours, spent night in Wichita Significant Events: observed 3 tornados multiple mesocylones observed at same time observed first ever EF-5 tornado, Greensburg, KS assisted Russel Co. EM while waiting for Maxville tornado to pass assisted Maxville KS victims help assess damage to a residence cleared debris off HWY 50 from 100+ yr old tree from family homestead

May 5th:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Location: South-Central Kansas Miles Traveled: 697 Duration: 13.5 hours Significant Events: observed tornado damage from the night before observed 1 tornado sampled golf ball hail

May 6th:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Observation Region: Southwest Oklahoma Miles Traveled: 416 Duration: 5 hours Significant Events: several brief wall clouds windmill photography

May 23rd:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Location: Northwest OK/Northeast TX Panhandle Miles Traveled: 555 Duration: 6 hours Significant Events: observed 2 supercells first supercell had persistent wall cloud and funnel observed several other wall clouds structure pictures

August 19th:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie and Rachael Sigler Observation Region: Norman, OK Miles Traveled: ~20 Duration: 2 hours Significant Events: severe flooding from remnants of Hurricane Erin

October 14th:

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Crew: Bob Fritchie, Rachael Sigler, and Mary Long Observation Region: South Central Oklahoma Miles Traveled: ~300 Duration: 8 hours Significant Events: impressive dust-devils very photogenic gustnadoes

December 9th:

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Crew: N/A Observation Region: The House, Norman, OK Miles Traveled: N/A Duration: N/A Significant Events: severe ice storm in Oklahoma

December 22nd:

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Crew: N/A Observation Region: The House, Norman, OK Miles Traveled: N/A Duration: N/A Significant Events: pretty light snow

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