Fulldome's immersive feel is well utilized as you, the audience, feel like you are sitting behind the pilots of a NOAA "Hurricane Hunter" P3 as it flys into the storm. A highly detailed model of the plane was created complete with pilots and scientists at the controls. Autodesk Maya FluidEfx then was used to create a hurricane environment complete with a storm-tossed sea. This program featured storms in their nastiest "force five" levels, all giving the viewers the close-up look you would not want to see in real life. All that is missing is the wind and mist hitting your face.

This visually dramatic fulldome sequence for "Force Five " initially premiered at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Burke Baker Planetarium and then was available for licensed distribution as part of a five year NASA Immersive Earth Project grant partnered by Rice University's Rice Space Institute.