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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.
Storm Chasers alum Joel Taylor died while traveling on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship to Puerto Rico.
Former Discovery Channel storm chaser Tim Samaras (an engineer), his son Paul Samaras (a photographer), and Tim's longtime chase partner Carl Young (a meteorologist), all professional storm chasers with the TWISTEX project, were caught directly by the tornado; all three died in their vehicle, two of them were ejected. [34]
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 ...
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, ... three tornado chasers died while pursuing a powerful tornado in El Reno, Oklahoma.
The severe weather event was premiered as an episode as part of Storm Chasers, titled "Tornado Rampage 2011". [31] In the same year, Timmer built the heavily-armored Dominator 2, modifying it from a GMC Yukon XL. [32] [33] Following declining ratings, Storm Chasers, the television series that Timmer starred in, was cancelled in 2012. [34]
The storm chasers who had stayed the night in Limon, Colorado, after chasing supercells in the area were beginning to thin out, traveling to the next target. There was a stout cap in Kansas that ...