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The first person to gain public recognition as a storm chaser was David Hoadley (born 1938), who began chasing North Dakota storms in 1956, systematically using data from area weather offices and airports. He is widely considered the pioneer storm chaser [3] and was the founder and first editor of Storm Track magazine.
Eric Michael Nguyen (January 2, 1978 – September 9, 2007) was an American professional storm chaser, meteorologist, and photographer from Keller, Texas, United States.In 2008, Nguyen released his first book of photography titled Adventures in Tornado Alley: The Storm Chasers with co-author Mike Hollingshead.
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.
The unique real-time perspective helped the team visualize that they could take a north-south road that would get them lined up right into the path of the tornado. ... the storm chasers' ears ...
One of her life's most intense storm chases was a tornado that Timmer and Gizmo chased down on foot near McCook, Nebraska, on May 17, 2019. The tornado touched down on top of Timmer's chase ...
Reed Timmer (born March 17, 1980) is an American meteorologist and storm chaser.Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he took an interest in science, including weather, at a young age, before experiencing severe weather, including a hailstorm at age 13.
We sent out storm chasers who actually ran into the weather and shot very high-resolution motion picture footage. That gave us the ability to study tornadoes in a lot more detail than we ever had ...
Mike Hollingshead is an American professional storm chaser, photographer and videographer from Blair, Nebraska. [1] His work has appeared on the cover of National Geographic . [ 2 ] It was also featured in the films Take Shelter , The Fifth Estate and the series finale of Dexter .