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It was the first known instance of a storm chaser or a meteorologist killed by a tornado. [26] Even before it was known that Samaras, his son, and Young had been killed, the event led many to question storm-chasing tactics, particularly in close proximity to tornadoes. [27]
The tornado killed four storm chasers (three professional and one amateur), the first known deaths in the history of storm chasing. [5] Although the tornado remained over mostly open terrain, dozens of storm chasers unaware of its immense size and erratic movement were caught off-guard.
[38] [40] Another amateur storm chaser was killed in the area. [41] Other storm chasers, including The Weather Channel's Mike Bettes as well as Reed Timmer, were either injured or had their vehicles damaged. Overall, the tornado was responsible for eight fatalities and an unknown number of injuries.
Three men were killed on Tuesday in a car wreck in northwest Texas as an intense tornado-packed storm front rolled through the state, local media reported. Three storm chasers killed in car crash ...
As a deadly tornado cut a path across Iowa last month, storm chasers tracked it, ... The twister, which the National Weather Service later rated an EF4, killed five people May 21, making it one of ...
Storm Chaser Brandon Clement was in Greenfield immediately following the tornado to talk to the survivors and captured startling images of what was left of the basement Newberry and others were ...
The TWISTEX crew and the vehicles on equipped with mobile mesonets. TWISTEX (a backronym for Tactical Weather-Instrumented Sampling in/near Tornadoes Experiment) was a tornado research experiment that was founded and led by Tim Samaras of Bennett, Colorado, US, that ended in the deaths of three researchers in the 2013 El Reno tornado.
And this month, nearly 4,000 people were killed by flooding in Libya, according to UN figures, the result of extreme rainfall brought by Storm Daniel. ... Storm chasing requires planning, patience ...