ncsuweb: NC State students perform a demonstration balloon launch for a media day.
ncsuweb: The team’s first day in the field in May 2009 (in Clinton, OK).
ncsuweb: The team’s first day of practice in April 2010 (in Norman, OK)
ncsuweb: A field of mammatus billows beneath a thunderstorm’s anvil in Texas.
ncsuweb: Kate Rojowsky, left, and David Stark fill a balloon prior to launch in Nebraska.
ncsuweb: Students conference while troubleshooting an instrument.
ncsuweb: The sun sets behind a thunderstorm in the Texas Panhandle in June of 2010.
ncsuweb: Nate Hardin, left, Johannes Dahl, center, and Graylen Boone, right, fill a balloon in western Nebraska.
ncsuweb: Nate Hardin prepares to release a balloon into the inflow of a storm in Nebraska.
ncsuweb: Sparse road networks often caused the team operate on rural roads and in open range land.
ncsuweb: Matt Morin, left, and Kate Rojowsky attach a sonde to a balloon in preparation for launch.
ncsuweb: Matt Parker launches a balloon in the vicinity of a target supercell in Colorado.
ncsuweb: Between balloon launches, Matt Parker observes the dissipation of a tornado in Nebraska.
ncsuweb: A shelf cloud and the flared base of a “high precipitation” supercell in Nebraska.
ncsuweb: Matt Parker photographed in the inflow region of a supercell thunderstorm in Nebraska.