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 - ...

It was the storm that chased down the storm chasers. The twister that formed Friday near El Reno, Okla., moved in an eccentric, juking path toward the east, and it overtook a pack of storm chasers and ...

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 ...

"Mile Wide Tornado: Stormchasers Tribute" will include highlights and special scenes featuring Tim Samaras, Carl Young and Paul Samaras. By Kimberly Nordyke Managing Editor, Digital Discovery Channel ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three veteran storm chasers were among the 10 people killed when a violent tornado barreled into the Oklahoma City metro area. Jim Samaras told The Associated Press on Sunday that his brother Tim ...

Americans, it seems, are obsessed with the weather, whether it’s across town or across the country: torrential rains that result in “500-year floods”; snowstorms that close cities and major highways; ...

"The ingredients are coming together for a pretty volatile day," storm chasing legend Tim Samaras told MSNBC during a phone interview on Friday, May 31, 2013. He warned that a supercell storm, the ...

Tim Samaras, 55, dedicated the last three decades to learning about tornadoes. June 2, 2013— -- Storm chaser and meteorologist Tim Samaras, his storm chaser partner Carl Young, and his son Paul ...

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