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 ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Timothy Michael Samaras (November 12, 1957 – May 31, 2013) was an American engineer and storm chaser best known for his field research on tornadoes and time on ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

As a child, Tim Samaras frustrated his parents by sneaking kitchen appliances into his bedroom to dismantle them. One day his mother had to coax him to come watch a movie musical with her. It was The ...

Samaras was an esteemed scientist who knew the real dangers of storm chasing. June 2, 2013— -- The tornado outbreak that swept through Oklahoma Friday night moved in quickly, for the second time ...

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 ...

Storm chasing is a gamble, and for several weeks now Tim Samaras has played the odds, wagering thousands of dollars in gas, lodging, food, and an obscene number of miles ticking ever higher on the ...

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 ...