Hurricane Hunters - Episode Guide

In the premiere of this reality series about Air Force pilots who fly into storms to gather meteorological data, a unit rookie's first mission is Category 3 Hurricane Irene.

Pilots track a weather disturbance brewing in the Gulf of Mexico, where they fly dangerously low at 500 feet above the water's surface, are surrounded by lightning, and hope to avoid a fatal downdraft.

Category 3 Hurricane Jova forms in the Pacific and looks to make land on the west coast of Mexico.

A mission into the heart of Hurricane Irene is undertaken 16 hours before the storm's projected landfall in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The object is to discover whether Irene will be on track to slam New York.

The unit monitors Hurricane Katia and tropical storms Nate and Maria.

Tropical Storm Lee rumbles into the Gulf of Mexico, and it looks like its path may take it to Biloxi, Miss., the Hurricane Hunter's home base.

Tropical Storm Ernesto intensifies as it makes its way across the Caribbean Sea before hitting Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula as a Category 2 hurricane in August 2012.

Hurricane Rafael develops into a Category 1 storm in the Caribbean Sea in October 2012.

A chronicle of a rookie pilot's training to be a member of the storm-chasing squadron.

A tropical depression in the Caribbean Sea has the potential to become a major storm.

Tracking Hurricane Sandy as it moves up the east coast of the U.S. in October 2012.

Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in the U.S. near Atlantic City in late October 2012, producing record storm surges on the coast and wreaking havoc in northeastern states after merging with another system coming from the west.