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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 kindness and courageous acts of storm chasers, emergency responders and community members could be felt and seen immediately following the tornado. ... at least four people were killed, and a ...
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.
A year later, in 2013, Timmer was injured after chasing the 2013 El Reno tornado for KFOR-TV, which ultimately killed four storm chasers, including Tim Samaras. [ 6 ] [ 38 ] On May 28, three days before the El Reno tornado, Timmer chased an erratic-moving, EF3 tornado near Bennington, Kansas , which he recalled it as "probably the most powerful ...
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.
Storm chasers who get in trouble, say, stuck on a muddy road or in a field, are on their own, Shaw said, with him being one-half of Foard County's police force and the possibility of a genuine ...
The chaser information is compiled with radar and lightning data and the project is intended to eventually expand to a standardized open access database covering future events. [47] In association with the project, software was unveiled in 2015 allowing for the synchronization of maps, radar data, and storm chasers' footage of the storm.
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.