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Tim Samaras was a pioneer and great man." [ 7 ] National Geographic remarked, "Tim was a courageous and brilliant scientist who fearlessly pursued tornadoes and lightning in the field in an effort to better understand these phenomena."
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.
Near U.S. 81, TWISTEX scientist and engineer Tim Samaras, along with his son Paul and research partner Carl Young, died in the tornado. Paul Samaras and Young were ejected from their Chevrolet Cobalt by the storm's sub-vortex, while Tim was still buckled in the passenger's seat. Local resident Richard Henderson, who decided to follow the storm ...
A year later, in 2013, Timmer was injured after chasing the 2013 El Reno tornado for KFOR-TV, which ultimately killed four storm chasers, including Tim Samaras. [ 6 ] [ 38 ] On May 28, three days before the El Reno tornado, Timmer chased an erratic-moving, EF3 tornado near Bennington, Kansas , which he recalled it as "probably the most powerful ...
Lucas Samaras (born 1936), Greek-American art photographer; Nikos Samaras (1970–2013), Greek volleyball player; Nick Samaras (born 1952), American poet; Spyridon Samaras (1861–1917), Greek composer; Tim Samaras (1957–2013), American weather researcher and "storm chaser" Tryphon Samaras (born 1969), Greek hairdresser and television personality
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 ...
A new team known as TWISTEX, led by veteran storm chaser Tim Samaras, along with Carl Young and Tony Laubach, join the series driving TWISTEX Probe (a modified 2003 GMC Sierra Denali) and TWISTEX M1-M3 (three modified Chevy Cobalts). Also returning are Danny Cheresnick and Aaron Ruppert in their SCOUT vehicle (a new 2009 Jeep Wrangler replaces ...
Although the tornado remained over mostly open terrain, dozens of storm chasers unaware of its immense size were caught off-guard. Along US 81, renowned chaser and researcher Tim Samaras, along with his son Paul and research partner Carl Young, were killed when their vehicle was tossed by the tornado or a sub-vortex associated with it.