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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A woman who lost her husband and son to a powerful tornado in Oklahoma said Thursday the two storm chasers will leave a legacy. Kathy Samaras spoke at a memorial service for Tim Samaras, 54, and his ...

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 storm chaser and weather researcher Tim Samaras, his son Paul and his longtime chase partner Carl Young were all killed in the El Reno tornado Friday night in Oklahoma. A total of nine people ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...