After Friday's chaotic tornadoes tore apart Oklahoma, only two weeks after what happened in Moore, Oklahoma, the storm chasing community is mourning the loss of one of their own. Well-respected storm ...

Journalist Brantley Hargrove talks about his new book, “The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras.” Tim Samaras was a prominent member of the storm chasing ...

Veteran tornado scientist Tim Samaras, his son, environmental photographer Paul Samaras, 24, and meteorologist Carl Young, 45, died while chasing Friday's EF-3 tornado in El Reno, Oklahoma. The ...

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Three veteran storm chasers died doing what they loved: roaming the Great Plains in search of dangerous storms like the one in Oklahoma that ended their final pursuit. Tim Samaras, his son Paul and ...

Transient, mystical and deadly. Tornadoes can happen any time, but they ramp up in the spring, when outbreaks typically terrorize large portions of the country. Despite their brevity, their violent ...

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 ...

Tim Samaras, an engineer known best for his research into tornadoes and other severe weather phenomena, died when they vehicle was overrun by a tornado near El Reno, Okla., on Friday. Samaras, 52, was ...

What made Tim Samaras become so interested in tornadoes and storm chasing? It started with The Wizard of Oz. He was transfixed by the tornado on screen, which even by today’s standards still looks ...

It's tornado season on the Great Plains, so throngs of storm chasers are once again about to spill onto the roads. Some of them are extreme-weather junkies, driving heedlessly into wind and rain in ...

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

Three storm chasers, including a father and son, were killed by one of the recent tornadoes in Oklahoma.Three local storm chasers said they knew them well and their hearts were heavy Sunday as they ...