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NSSL’s Sean Waugh rides out Hurricane Irene in a mobile mesonet vehicle in Morehead City, NC. His goal was to collect weather data on Hurricane Irene as it passed overhead and also test a new instrument he designed, tested and built with NSSL’s Sherman Frederickson.