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Will take 12 hours, long and turbo leapt -- turbulent flight. it helps predict where the storm will go and saving millions of dollars in storm preparation and more importantly, saving lives. >> comes down to evacuate or not. emergency management has a tough job and forecasters. we go in a storm and get a rough ride and collect data. they take that information to help those guys do the tough job of making hard decisions on who has to evacuate. >> reporter: lightning fills the darkness of sky. a few hours into our journey, sunlight reveals clouds and thunderstorms on the horizon. we're heading d...

Will take 12 hours. a long and turbulent flight. these air force reservists are trained to fly in these dangerous conditions, bringing along a team of scientists who collect information from the storm using these data collectors which helps predict where the storm will go and saving millions of dollars in storm preparation and, more importantly, saving lives. >> comes down to evacuate or not evacuate. emergency management, they have the tough job. forecasters, they have the tough job. we go in a storm, we get a rough ride, we collect the data. they take that information to help those guys do t...

The ride. >> reporter: tonight's flight will take 12 hours, long and flight. it helps predict where the storm will go and saving millions of dollars in storm preparation and more importantly, saving lives. >> comes down to evacuate or not. emergency management has a tough job and forecasters. we go in a storm and get a rough ride and collect data. they take that information to help those guys do the tough job of making hard decisions who has to evacuate. >> reporter: lightning fills the darkness of sky. a few hours into the journey, sunlight reveals clouds and thunderstorms on the horizon. we'...