[Tim] Samaras was a tornado chaser with a simple but absurdly treacherous goal: to get close enough to a twister to glean data from within its core. [Brantley] Hargrove, who spent months on the road chasing tornadoes for the reporting of the book, retraces and recreates Samaras’ most dramatic missions, culminating on May 31, 2014, in El Reno, Oklahoma, where he would face off with the largest tornado ever recorded. That same tornado would take Samaras’ life along with those of his son, Paul, and fellow chaser Carl Young.
How do people get interested in chasing tornadoes? Read this fascinating interview with the author of a new book about a legendary storm chaser who died in his quest to gather data about these destructive forces of nature.
