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In addition to the three TWISTEX members, the tornado killed five other people, including local resident Richard Charles Henderson, who had decided to follow the storm. [7] Atmospheric scientists and storm chasers embarked on a major project to gather information and analyze what happened regarding chaser actions and meteorological occurrences ...
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.
An early version of the Tornado Intercept Vehicle (TIV 1). The SRV "Dominator", featured in the Discovery Channel series, Storm Chasers.. Storm Chasers was filmed each year in the central United States (an area known as Tornado Alley due to the frequency and severity of tornadoes occurring there) primarily during late spring and early summer, the time of the most frequent tornado activity ...
Storm Chasers alum Joel Taylor died while traveling on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship to Puerto Rico.
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 ...
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.
As of 22 May 2024, there have been 4 direct storm chasing deaths and 12 indirect deaths. Nearly half of the indirect deaths are a result of hydroplaning in conditions after a chase. The first was Christopher Phillips, a University of Oklahoma (OU) undergraduate student, who died in a hydroplaning accident when swerving to miss a rabbit in 1984 ...
Risks Involved With Being a Storm Chaser. Although storm chaser deaths are rare, they do occur. The biggest risk is posed not by the storm itself, but due to risky driving on highways, according ...