[ 64 ] [ 65 ] See Supercell . [ 66 ] Supercell/barber's pole photograph. A lynchpin of the NOAA National Hurricane Research Laboratory 's hurricane -research fleet is the Lockheed WP-3D Orion (P-3). It has two barber-pole samplers (named for their red-and-white stripes) which protrude from the aircraft’s front, a