His team had bullied into Hurricane Helene’s eye when he noticed on radar that the storm looked like it was dripping stalactites. Or growing teeth.

Hurricane Ernesto, 2024, top speed 98 mph, Cat 2. A staff shortage delayed NOAA from flying the Gulfstream IV aircraft by two days during the early stage of Hurricane Ernesto. Ernesto dumped heavy ...

"Under extreme amounts of chaos and pressure, he without any doubt saved a life," Groves City Marshal Christopher Robin said during the ceremony.