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Timothy Michael Samaras (November 12, 1957 – May 31, 2013) was an American engineer and storm chaser best known for his field research on tornadoes and time on the Discovery Channel show Storm Chasers. He died in the 2013 El Reno tornado.
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.
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 ...
Martin Lisius after a storm chase in Texas, 2013. Martin Lisius is an American filmmaker [1] and storm chaser. [2] [3] He founded StormStock, [4] a weather and climate stock footage collection, in 1993, and Tempest Tours, [5] a storm chasing expedition company, in 2000.
However, the human toll was still immense, as the tornado killed eight people, all of whom were in vehicles. Three storm chasers, Tim Samaras, his son Paul Samaras and Carl Young, were killed east ...
Storm chaser Aaron Rigsby, seen here in a 2014 chase, was at the center of the tornado destruction in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, on March 24, helping to pull survivors from the rubble. (Instagram ...
The Texas Severe Storms Association (TESSA) is a national non-profit organization founded in 1993 by storm chaser and TESSA chairman Martin Lisius.The organization’s mission is to bring together both professional meteorologists and weather enthusiasts in an attempt to better understand dangerous storms through the collection and diffusion of knowledge.
The movie 'Twister,' of course, had a role in storm chaser's hobby. Unlike many storm chasers, Sonneborn did not get his love of severe weather from "Twister," the 1996 adventure film starring the ...