defined. i know one of the hurricane hunters went out and took it comes out tomorrow. i took a year to put this some video yesterday where together. it shows and you look out it talks about how the democrats the window and they are in are trying to do things behind the eye of the hurricane and the scenes. as chairman of the oversight they are looking straight committee i got a lot of things up. apparently you in the that most people didn t get to weather business call that see. things democrats are doing that the stadium effect? janice: it s such a well are down right seedy. defined eye. the stacking of the clouds. steve: like what. hr 1 to change the rules of i will tell you this hurricane looks like the road, the way they do ballot something that you see like harvesting they want to make a typhoon in the eastern that legal all around the pacific. that s how well defined this country, they can go in, you storm is. don t actually have to go to the poll. they can gather ballots for
everyone really needs to pay attention to what he said. that is vital information that he just gave out. as we flew into dorian on saturday night it was a very powerful category 4 storm. we had an incredible stadium effect of the eye as you ve seen. there are pictures on the internet right now that have gone viral. we did experience severe turbulence on the way in. we had a good ride and did four penetrations of dorian which is really typical for any mission we fly when tracking a storm. as far as the eye ride itself when we re going through, what we re experiencing at flight level is no way indicative of what is going to be on the ground. i ve flown these storms now for 19 years as well as a lot of my other crew member friends i work with on a daily basis and i can tell you i would fly through a storm any day before i would ride one out on the ground. what do you learn in flying through these storms? the main thing we do is extract data from inside the storm and send it via satell
180 miles per hour. however, there s still a bit of uncertainty about the future of its path as it gets ready to make landfall in the united states. let s go to nbc news meteorologist bill karins for the latest on the storm. bill? thank you, reverend. we know the northern bahama island chain has been devastated. we ve seen pictures and imagery out of there that looks like a tornado went through. that s what you d expect. i want to show you this picture. this is from the hurricane hunters. this was issued by garrett black. he just sent this out. what you re looking at, you see the propeller on the plane, bottom left, obviously the sun, and what you re looking at is what they call the stadium effect. that s the ring of thunderstorms that surrounds the eye. so when the hurricane hunters are in the center of the storm, they can see the blue skies above and they re surrounded by this incredibly tall mass of extremely fast-moving thunderstorms. and for the people that were in marsh harbour
for the last three hours is right in the center of the eye. i m sure the sun was out towards the middle of the day but now whatever wasn t destroyed with that western eye wall now the winds are shifting completely opposite as they now have to go through the southeast eye wall of a category 5 hurricane. just incredible to even see this on a satellite imagery and this is just the clouds and what we do is we know that the thunderstorms, more intense they are, the higher in the atmosphere they do so higher you go up in the atmosphere where the jets fly the colder it gets and colorize that and put the coldest in red. this is spinning around the eye and then you have what you call the calm of the eye and when the hurricane hunters are in here, it s a stadium effect. if you re looking up, it is like you are in a football stadium and that s the thunderstorms ringing around you. throughout the next 48 hours, the storm goes from here to just north of freeport.
invaluable information we get from them. we really appreciate it. if you don t like turbulence, don t take on that job, that s what you re saying. they hand you air sickness bags as you walk on. they fly straight through the storm, not above it, straight through it? different levels. they used to do low flying passes, like down low to measure how high waves were and stuff, there was a plane maybe in isabel, one am joy caught fire from sea spray. they stopped doing that. they go through, penetrate through the eye, call it the stadium effect when they get in there. they report when they re into the eye and look around, feels like they re in a football stadium. thunderstorm clouds around them are seats at a stadium. you hear them say it is like the stadium effect, that s when you have a well defined eye with huge thunderstorms around it. it is not often anyone gets to see that besides them. last year with hurricane michael, storm chasers were in that, the sun came out, even