5/1 – DOWN
5/2 – DOWN
5/3 – Travel to Woodward, Oklahoma
5/4 – DOWN – Woodward, OK
5/5 – Travel to Hays, KS
5/6 – GO – Intercepted elevated supercell near Oberlin, KS. The unmanned aircraft had its first flight with VORTEX2!
5/7 – Travel to Amarillo, TX
5/8 – DOWN – Laundry day!
5/9 – Travel to Perry, OK
5/10 – GO – Tornado outbreak in central Oklahoma. Intercepted supercell, but fast moving storms made deployment difficult.
5/11 – GO – Intercepted two supercells south of Woodward, OK. Weatherford, OK was lodging.
5/12 – GO – Intercepted high-precipitation supercell in SW Oklahoma – brief tornado formed near Clinton, OK. Lodging in Wichita Falls, TX.
5/13 – Travel to Midland, TX
5/14 – GO – cells near Monohans, TX. Road network poor until late in the life of the storm.
5/16 – Travel – Lubbock, TX.
Summary: 6 days of operations so far.