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Four chasers had just experienced the Dominator 3's first direct intercept of a tornado in over a decade -- including Sierra Lindsey, who became the first female to be inside a tornado ...
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]
Several other storm chasers, including The Weather Channel's Mike Bettes, were also caught in the same sub-vortex but escaped with only minor injuries. Bettes and the Tornado Hunt crew were lifted up by the wedge tornado in their sport utility vehicle. That storm threw them two hundred yards off U.S. Route 81. The SUV was destroyed afterward.
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.
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]
While monitoring the incoming weather with a weather radar, the photographer saw an incredibly unique sight overhead his family home -- the mouth of a tornado as it for Storm chaser captures rare ...
A young storm chaser captured the moment a tornado formed over his family house in New Port Richy, Florida, on Tuesday, May 31.Nicholas Krasznavolgyi was monitoring the storm system inside on a ...
Casey created an IMAX film called Tornado Alley about chasing tornadoes and had to build the Tornado Intercept Vehicle (TIV) and the Tornado Intercept Vehicle 2 (TIV2) to film inside a tornado. [2] Tornado Alley was released worldwide on March 18, 2011. [3] Casey has been named one of the 50 best minds of 2008 by Discover Magazine. [4]