Tornado season is right around the corner. And storm chasers are getting ready to spend their lives on the road hoping a combination of forecasting and gut instinct will lead them close to a twister - ...

Armed with a high school diploma and his own inventive abilities, Tim Samaras was an outsider in the PhD-dominated world of professional storm researchers. Yet in 2003, Samaras managed to do what many ...

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Above: In this file photo from May 26, 2006, in Ames, Iowa, Tim Samaras shows the probes he was using when trying to collect data from a tornado. Image credit: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall. The story ...

The May 31, 2013 tornado killed four storm chasers, including well known weather researchers Tim and Paul Samaras, and their chase partner Carl Young. Tim Samaras dedicated his life to storm chasing ...

“He wanted to answer the questions people thought were impossible.” That’s how one friend of Tim Samaras described that storm chaser and scientist who died in 2013, along with one of his sons and a ...

A version of this story ran in the June 2018 issue. At least he died doing what he loved. Brantley Hargrove doesn’t write a single sentence so crassly clichéd in The Man Who Caught the Storm. (He also ...

The tragic death of Tim Samaras, a noted weather researcher and former Discovery Channel storm chaser, has shaken all of us in the meteorological community. He was one of three chasers killed in ...

Corporations are taking advantage of sclerotic government to skim money off anti-poverty initiatives, according to this stinging exposé. Lawyer and journalist Kim (Abandoned) Continue reading » A ...

As I rounded the corner for breakfast at the Guymon, Oklahoma, Super 8 on June 1, 2012, a familiar face with a distinctive Roman nose peeked over his laptop screen at me, then focused back on the ...

In one of his final interviews, storm chaser Tim Samaras was looking for “supercell” storm system in Oklahoma capable of producing “pretty destructive tornadoes.” He found it. Samaras, one of three ...