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The spin up wouldn't have been visible except for the small amount of dirt the rotating column of air picked up.

"Hannah, what's the general direction of the storm?" John asked. Hannah glanced in at one of the displays in the truck.

"It's moving North West to South East..." Hannah had said after watching the radar loop a few times.

"Well, that's a little strange," John said, leaning in the truck to watch the radar loop himself. Hannah watched as the spin up dissipated. They were in the right spot, and would be at the right time. John spun in a circle, looking skyward. "Nothing about this storm has been normal..."

Hannah clicked a few times on the trackpad switching between radar views. The rotation higher in the storm was very visible on radar, but the effects weren't being seen on the ground. The storm was rotating and it wasn't a question of if it were going to drop another tornado, but when that was going to happen. "Man it's unstable here..."

"What's the CAPE look like?" John asked. It was a tab that had been opened on his web browser.

"Umm..." Hannah let the thought trail off while the page reloaded. "Somewhere between 3000 and 3500." Her voice trailed off as she looked around. The CAPE numbers weren't terribly high, but the storm already had a history.

"Not too high..." John commented watching the sky.

Hannah went back to watching the sky when there was a loud clap of thunder. A few movements after the thunderclap she heard Olivia sobbing. She walked back to probe two and peered in."What's wrong, Olivia?"

"I just wet a diaper!" She shouted at Hannah. "I'm not a baby, I shouldn't be peeing in a diaper!"

"It doesn't make you a baby..." Hannah said, her voice full of sympathy. It wasn't that long ago that she had struggled with this herself. "Let me ask you this: if you hadn't been wearing the diaper, what would have happened?"

Olivia stopped sobbing, gave a quizzical look and the burst out laughing. "I'd need a change of pants and I'd look funnier than I do now."

"Right now, no one has to know, that's the beauty of it," Hannah said with a smile. "Next time we pull into a gas station tell my mom and she'll get you changed. That diaper should hold at least one more good wetting without leaking."

"Well, I guess you would know, wouldn't you..." Olivia said, hugging Hannah.

"Yep," Hannah said, "Come on out here with everyone else."

"Is it safe?" Olivia asked.

"Do you think my dad would let Lexie and I anywhere near here if we weren't?" Hannah asked. It was a rhetorical question, but it needed to be asked.

"Fair enough." Olivia said, climbing out of the back seat of the truck. The pair walked back over to the group, Olivia with a noticeable waddle.

"Glad to see you've decided to join us, Olivia.." John said, glancing at the young girl. She looked apprehensive, like she was waiting on something bad to happen. Hannah was rummaging around in the truck looking for something in her bag. She just happened to glance up at the monitor mounted in between the seats in time to see a red box display around the marker for the truck on the map.

"Tornado warning!" She shouted, well screeched more accurately. Something was very unnerving about this though. Outside the truck, people scrambled to get back to their vehicles. Eric jumped in the driver seat as John slammed his door.

"Probe to all units," John said, grabbing the microphone. "If anyone sees it, call it." Eric dropped the truck in gear and punched the gas. Hannah'a door had been open and she pulled her feet in as the door slammed shut from the force of the truck shooting forward. She flipped herself around to see that Olivia had jumped in the truck with her, Eric and John.

"Probe 2 to Probe 1," Emily's voice floated through the speaker on the radio.

"Go" John said flatly. He was looking around trying to find a tornado.

"You guys have Olivia up there, right?"

"Affirm," John said, turning to look at the very scared looking child in the backseat of the truck. "She's safe." Hannah finally got herself flipped around in the seat so she was sitting on her bottom and not her back. She pulled the text of the warning up on her laptop and skimmed it.

"The 88D at Vance saw rotation," Hannah said, changing views. "There it is. Go to storm velocity and it's practically above us." Hannah put her window down and looked at the sky. Above the truck the sky was a cauldron of spinning clouds. Hannah pulled her head back in. "Let's deploy..."