The extreme weather photographer and storm chaser Jim Reed has spent the past 20 years shooting extreme meteorological events
When the storm hit in Mississippi, the storm chasers were there. As Jim Axelrod reports, what motivates the amateur meteorologists who risk their lives pursuing these big storms?
Members of the Texas Aggie Storm Chasers, a group of about 60 Texas A&M University students, are prepped and ready to jump in their cars ...
... storm chaser from Saskatchewan says he and some fellow severe-weather enthusiasts from the southern United States will be keeping ...
Storm chasers throughout various regions of the Midwest are overwhelmed by the sheer amount of tornadoes currently affecting the area. Dean Reynolds reports from Chicago.
... as vacationers trade in their beach towels for a ride with storm chasers. Labeled "Tornado Tourists" by a University ... watch areas in a van. The study found that most of the amateur storm chasers were happy with their experiences. One-third of the tourists ...
Storm chasers have become bat watchers. A scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, working with meteorologists ...
'Multi-vortex!' Video shows these storms pack a vortex punch.
... and treating skywatchers to a rare and spectacular treat.A storm-chasing photographer captured the sky show ... where it really went crazy."Emfinger, a storm chaser, captured the vibrant nighttime images on camera in Ozark, Arkansas. He called it "a much ...
... been able to examine the 'guts' of Wasatch winter storms like we can with the Doppler on Wheels radar that is presently ... can distinguish the size and shape of snowflakes and raindrops in a storm, can collect data on lower-elevation valley ...
... ." Just after 5 p.m., two storm chasers driving toward the western edge of Joplin, Missouri, spotted a translucent set of tendrils reaching down from the storm's low black thunderhead. Almost as quickly ...
Fans of the TV series "Storm Chasers" may be disappointed — not all tornado scientists race after dangerous weather. Some are more like crime scene investigators ...
Now that anyone can run down twisters with a smartphone, there's a new breed of thrill-seeker that worries some public safety officials. . — Chancy Smith, who is in charge of his county's emergency ...
Come tornado season, meteorologist Joshua Wurman spends his life on the road, zooming down highways in search of thunderstorms. This summer, he and his colleagues will turn nomad to launch a first-of ...
