Narrative:

I was given runway 10 at [departure airport] and then a left turn. My destination was ZZZ. This was not my usual departure runway and it took me further east and north than I usually fly before going northwest to join the northbound 7500 feet VFR corridor. There was a tfr that night for a baseball game. I was flying northwest with enough room to skirt the tfr. I encountered severe turbulence that resulted in multiple deflections of the aircraft of more than 45 degrees of bank and 20 degrees of yaw; with loss of altitude of several hundred feet. For several minutes; I don't know exactly how long; I fought the controls and just tried to maintain a level flight attitude and avoid losing too much altitude; which required full power and vy. When the turbulence subsided I was flying more to the north-northwest; but I did not immediately realize how close I was to the tfr because I was pretty shaken up by the severity of the turbulence event. When I looked down to the right and looked at the stadium lights; I realized that I was closer than what would have looked to be a correct distance. I checked my foreflight iphone and found that I had flown just inside of the edge of the tfr.I had not brought my full ipad and mount on the flight because it was such a familiar area to me; and I fly between the two airports frequently. If I had been following foreflight actively; I would have had a constant visual reminder of my position during the turbulence event. As it was; I lost situational awareness both during the event and for a time afterward that it took to calm down from what was some of the worst turbulence I have been in.

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Title: A Cessna 172 pilot reported that due to severe weather conditions he inadvertently flew into a TFR.

Narrative: I was given Runway 10 at [departure airport] and then a left turn. My destination was ZZZ. This was not my usual departure runway and it took me further east and north than I usually fly before going northwest to join the northbound 7500 feet VFR corridor. There was a TFR that night for a baseball game. I was flying northwest with enough room to skirt the TFR. I encountered severe turbulence that resulted in multiple deflections of the aircraft of more than 45 degrees of bank and 20 degrees of yaw; with loss of altitude of several hundred feet. For several minutes; I don't know exactly how long; I fought the controls and just tried to maintain a level flight attitude and avoid losing too much altitude; which required full power and Vy. When the turbulence subsided I was flying more to the north-northwest; but I did not immediately realize how close I was to the TFR because I was pretty shaken up by the severity of the turbulence event. When I looked down to the right and looked at the stadium lights; I realized that I was closer than what would have looked to be a correct distance. I checked my ForeFlight iPhone and found that I had flown just inside of the edge of the TFR.I had not brought my full iPad and mount on the flight because it was such a familiar area to me; and I fly between the two airports frequently. If I had been following ForeFlight actively; I would have had a constant visual reminder of my position during the turbulence event. As it was; I lost situational awareness both during the event and for a time afterward that it took to calm down from what was some of the worst turbulence I have been in.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.