Sentences with phrase «storm chasers»

A group of storm chasers try to collect data in Twister.

Warren Faidley is a professional storm chaser who offers tours for people who want to literally ride out a tornado.

New within the rankings this year is a feature they've dubbed «Powderfares,» which suggests airfares for quick - turn flights from select metro areas for storm chasers with the flexibility to drop everything in the pursuit of face - shots and the untracked.

Here are a couple YouTube posts from storm chasers who were on the scene for yesterday's devastating tornado in Moore, Oklahoma.

Its name comes from storm chasers, which are people who pursue and watch severe storms.

He may have made an impression on you as the caffeinated storm chaser in the Nineties nouveau disaster movie Twister.

, Will hops in his super-charged, Batmobile - like storm chaser and heads into his hometown of Gulfport, Alabama to talk his semi-estranged brother, Breeze (Ryan Kwanten), into boarding up the family tow business and getting the heck out.

«We didn't want to become storm chasers, so we decided to make our own.»

In May, veteran storm chaser Tim Samaras — along with longtime colleague Carl Young and son Paul Samaras — was killed by a twister that tore through Oklahoma, killing 22 people.

The tornado that struck El Reno, Okla., on May 31, killing four storm chasers including pioneering tornado researcher Tim Samaras, was an EF - 5 twister, the strongest on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, the National Weather Service reported on Tuesday.

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This book describes how storm chaser Warren Faidley finds storms and photographs them, as well as how he makes a living off his photogr...

Two things have weighed heavily on my mind the past two weeks: the tornadoes that have ravaged the Oklahoma City area, and the professional and amateur storm chasers who risk their lives to follow them.

Storm chaser Josh Morgerman released video Friday of Hurricane Maria making landfall in Humacao, on the southeast side of Puerto Rico on Sept. 20.

Long summaries of events would be stronger if leavened with more direct quotes, but Sandlin's work is still engaging in its revelation of the roots of modern meteorology in the dedication of these first storm chasers.

«Storm chasers don't particularly like squall lines — they stop any particular individual storm from really taking off,» he adds.

Much of what we know about storms — and especially much of what we see about them on TV — comes from self - made storm chasers.

Casey is most famous for footage that has aired on the Discovery Channel's docudrama series Storm Chasers, which follows scientists as they deploy data - collecting probes inside tornadoes from the confines of 16,000 - pound armored vehicles.

Stout - hearted storm chasers race to put themselves right in the path of danger, both for the sheer thrill of it and to gather information that will clarify how tornadoes form, gather strength and dissipate.

As if they don't already have enough on their plate, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are turning storm chasers.

The ensemble of mostly no - name actors includes «ICarly» alum Nathan Kress as the VP's other son, a kid who refuses to put down his video camera even in situations where he's about to die, and Matt Walsh (Mike on HBO's «Veep»), as the head storm chaser / filmmaker obsessed with getting incredible footage at all cost.

Soon a group of storm chasers arrive, trying to track the many new tornadoes that are popping - up, hoping to get footage for their documentary.

«Into the Storm» is basically a 21st Century «Twister»: Storm chasers go after some of the most dangerous tornadoes on record to get information and capture incredible video, while at the same time trying to protect themselves and those they care about from literally being sucked away into a twister.

Two goofball storm chasers straight out of the TV show «Jackass», with dreams of becoming YouTube stars, are the unnecessary comic relief.

This Blu - ray edition features the acclaimed 2013 season, which follows extreme storm chaser Reed Timmer as he intercepts some of the biggest tornadoes in history.

Meanwhile, Donnie's not the only person capturing footage around the town, as the bad weather has brought to town a crew of hi - tech storm chasers hungry to make a name for themselves with the kind of first - person footage that TV stations could only dream to air.

We get familiar tropes, such as a single dad trying to find his sons, a teenage boy who is too shy to ask the school's beauty out but ends up becoming a hero in her eyes, and rival storm chasers (a truly annoying pair of «reality show» - caliber, stereotypical rednecks) who muck things up more often than not.

Armed robbers hit a Treasury facility in Alabama while a Category 5 storm approaches from the coast; Maggie Grace is the federal agent who has to stop them, and Toby Kebbell is the meteorologist who drives her around in his souped - up storm chaser car.

Richard Armitage, so effective in the «Hobbit» series, wears an expression of slumberous anxiety through «Into the Storm,» though Sarah Wayne Callies provides some energy as the smartest storm chaser.

Bill Paxton (Apollo 13, True Lies) stars as Bill Harding, a former storm chaser who is traveling with his fiancee, Melissa (Gertz, The Lost Boys), back to familiar stomping grounds of Oklahoma in order to get the final signatures for his divorce from his former wife and partner, Jo (Hunt, Rollercoaster).

The Iowa Cubs will be facing off against the Omaha Storm Chasers as baseball fans and their dogs come out to watch their favorite team.

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Fans will be taken on a high velocity adventure with Free Ranger as he battles with earth, wind and fire to protect the Skylands and reach his destiny as the greatest storm chaser in the land.

Quite probably risking life and limb to capture Mother Nature at her worst, Mike has been an intrepid storm chaser, documenting the worst of weather since the late 1990s.

This Nobel Prize - worthy activity occurred practically under our nose without notice as meteorologists, computer scientists and engineers, and, yes, storm chasers pooled their knowledge to create the highly accurate tornado, hurricane, and wind shear warnings (for aviation) we take for granted today.

Tim Samaras, a longtime storm chaser for the Discovery Channel who died with his son Paul and partner Carl Young on Friday night in a potent Oklahoma twister, was certainly a celebrity, but also very much a scientist.

As a four - decade storm chaser I acknowledge there are some chasers (especially those associated with the media) who behaved irresponsibly in Oklahoma in their quest to get more extreme video than the next guy.

Tornado detection has improved with the addition of NEXRAD, the growth of the trained spotter networks, storm chasers armed with cellular data and imagery and the proliferation of cell phone cameras and social media.

«Most contractors are honest, but unethical storm chasers often are unlicensed and incompetent,» Quiggle says.

This was despite a number of natural disasters last year that brought out storm chaser scammers who traditionally try to take advantage of distressed people.

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Professional storm chaser Pete Moore (Matt Walsh) is determined to get the ultimate tornado on film in Steven Quale's action - packed disaster thriller, «Into the Storm.»

Here's his post, which offers a strong defense of storm chasers like those who died last week — Tim Samaras, his son, Paul, and meteorologist Carl Young:

Now, to the amazement of this veteran storm chaser, the supercell began spawning tornadoes in sequence, a phenomenon known as cyclical tornadogenesis.

The tornado that struck El Reno, Okla., on May 31, killing four storm chasers including pioneering tornado researcher Tim Samaras, was an EF - 5 twister, the strongest on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, the National Weather Service reported on Tuesday.