On May 22 2011 the unthinkable happened an EF5 34 to 1 mile wide tornado developed within seconds ... Legendary and Emmy Award winning storm chaser Jeff Piotrowski and storm chaser Kathryn ...

The tornado raced across southern Iowa at nearly 45 mph, shredding wind turbines like string cheese. In the town of ...

Years later, in 2011, he and his storm-chasing crew found themselves in Joplin, Missouri. While they didn't see that infamous EF5 tornado, the accompanying thunderstorm was "remarkably intense ...

Storm chasers tend to put this down to one event: the release of the film Twister in 1996. The film, starring Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt, profiles a team of principled but poorly-funded tornado ...

Sending an instrument-laden rocket into a tornado is quite a few notches past ... [ChasinSpin] and [ReedTimmer] are experienced storm chasers, and have a small fleet of purpose-built armored ...

Weaving together dozens of professional and amateur archival sources, along with dramatic interviews with the people behind the cameras, Witness: Joplin Tornado ... teeth of the storm, then ...

Racing towards a potentially deadly storm may sound like an absurd thing to do – but for some scientific researchers, chasing extreme ... actual formation of a tornado often happens on a time ...

Storm chaser Cyrena Arnold looks at seven hurricane and tornado scenes from popular TV shows and movies and rates them based on realism. She looks at storm scenes in "Geostorm" (2017), "Twister ...