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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] 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 ...
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 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 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 ...
While chasing severe storms, a vehicle driven by Randall Yarnall for Kelley Williamson, who were contracting for The Weather Channel (TWC) as stars of their own show, Storm Wranglers, ran a stop sign while northbound on Farm to Market Road 1081 and struck a vehicle driven by Corbin Lee Jaeger going west on Farm to Market Road 2794 in West Texas ...
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 ...
As a deadly tornado cut a path across Iowa last month, storm chasers tracked it, gathering rare data that is now offering detailed, close-range insight into powerful twisters.
During the afternoon hours of May 27, 1997, a large and slow-moving F5 tornado caused extreme damage across portions of the Jarrell, Texas area. Known most frequently as the Jarrell tornado, it killed 27 residents of the town, mainly in a single subdivision, and inflicted approximately $40 million (1997 USD) in damages in its 13-minute, 5.1 miles (8.2 km) track.