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

Three veteran storm chasers died doing what they loved: roaming the Great Plains in search of dangerous storms. Tim Samaras, his son Paul, 24, and colleague Carl Young, 45, died Friday night when an ...

Tim Samaras had one passion in life: Tornadoes. He told The Weather Channel that when he was kid, his mother sat him down in front of The Wizard of Oz; he was immediately entranced by the violent, ...