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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

May marks the first anniversary of the El Reno tornado that killed famed storm chaser Tim Samaras, his son Paul Samaras and colleague Carl Young. Nearly 12 months after the men were killed, the deputy ...

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 ...

AMES, Iowa -- Iowa State University meteorology professor and storm chaser Bill Gallus said researchers around the country are "in shock" over the death of Tim Samaras, the well-known storm chaser who ...

The three storm chasers killed in an Oklahoma tornado died when the twister they were pursuing made a sudden left turn and slammed into their car, sending it flying through the air like a toy, ...

Funeral services for scientific storm chasers Tim and Paul Samaras, who were killed Friday when a massive, multiple-vortex tornado changed direction, will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Mission Hills ...

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 ...

"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 ...

THE sky was black, and getting blacker. The hens began to go round in circles, and the horses ran out of the barn. Uncle Henry and the men were shouting, clutching on to their hats. Bundles of weeds ...

The newest extreme sport: covering the weather for TV. In an effort to satisfy the public's appetite for footage of blizzards, hurricanes and, most recently, the devastating tornadoes in Oklahoma, ...