Photographer Ryan McGinnis admits he made a serious mistake May 29, 2008, by underestimating the risk while chasing a storm that spawned several Kearney, Neb., tornadoes. He wanted to get in front of the supercell he’d followed from Lexington to …
Growing up in a farming family, Brad Emel learned at an early age what it was like to live at the mercy of the weather. He can also remember a few storms that terrified him as a child, as well …
Tricia Clarke stood on a Lakeway hilltop, winds threatening to snatch the ball cap from her head, and pointed across miles of rolling, scrub-covered limestone countryside, past the distant blue line of Lake Travis, to a spot nearly 55 miles …
The radar screens in the jetliner show massive storm systems around Wichita and Dodge City, Kansas, growing and beginning to merge. Any commercial aircraft in the area have already diverted. But this DC-8 heads right between the storms. Then it …
The moment, almost 20 years later, remains crystal clear in the mind of Tommy Self. He was a volunteer firefighter in the tiny central Alabama town of Townley, about 10 miles west of Jasper. The department responded when an EF-5 …
Researchers say they have collected promising weather data by flying instrument-laden drones into big Western and Midwestern storms. Now, they want to expand the project in hopes of learning more about how tornadoes form. Drones can penetrate parts of weather …
Churning, angry cloudscapes tinged with green and purple; panoramic long exposures crackling with streaks of lightning; it was the pictures that first caught David Patterson’s eye. He found himself noticing storm photos in a friend’s online gallery about three years …
Trent Bosler just remembers the noise. The noise of the hail smacking the ground, the thunder and the 40 mph winds all combining to make a classic super cell. He watched from less than a quarter-mile away as the tornado …
Wichita, Kansas, storm chaser Jim Reed was leaving a Chick-fil-A last week when he was stopped by an elderly couple. “Are you the severe weather man?” one asked, seeing his specially marked chase vehicle. They asked about the coming rain …
Lake Tahoe Community College, in California, has established a scholarship to honor a veteran storm chaser killed by a tornado in Oklahoma. The Carl Young Memorial Earth Science Scholarship is being established to honor the meteorology instructor who taught at …