Hurricane Hunters fly into Tropical Storm Isaias

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX/Gray News) — Hurricane Hunters flew into Tropical Storm Isaias on Wednesday after launching from Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi. The crew gathered data sent to the National Hurricane Center as the storm moves closer to the Gulf Coast.The crew flew a WC-130J Hercules about 700 miles southwest of Biloxi, approaching the storm from low altitude.Second Lt. Andrew Wilson, an aerial reconnaissance weather officer with the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, said the data collected during the flights helps forecasters understand what is happening inside the storm.“If we weren’t out here, we wouldn’t know what this storm is doing,” Wilson said. “You look at satellite imagery and you get an idea of where the storm is, but you don’t really know what exactly is going on inside the storm. We get the data, we send it off to the National Hurricane Center. Then they take all that data, they put it into the weather models and they’re able to give us an idea of what