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St. Helens in 1980: some volcano researchers were killed in the eruption, but authorities were successful at keeping most civilians out of the danger zone. Of those areas mentioned in this quote, Downtown OK city has about 7,600 people living in it. Tim Samaras, 55, along with his son, Paul Samaras, 24, and Carl Young, 45, died on Friday in El Reno after a tornado that packed winds of up to 165 mph picked up their car and threw it, somersaulting, a half a mile. As we wrote a while back, the National Weather Service downgraded the tornado from an EF-5 to an EF-3. Everybody was running for their lives,' said Terri Black, 51, a teacher's assistant in Moore. After the devastation of the Moore tornado, many residents who had experiences the storms before decided to ignore advice to stay home and tried to seek shelter elsewhere. Amy Williamson, who lives just off I-40 in the western Oklahoma City suburb of Yukon, said when she heard the tornado was heading towards her home, she put her children, baby sitter and cats in her car and drove away. National Geographic explorer and storm chaser Tim Samaras devoted his life to unlocking the mysteries of extreme weather. I have not suggested that storm chasing be illegal. I'm not saying these circumstances are sensible or humane, but they are the case nonetheless. It almost stopped, then went East. I started driving on the shoulder. Samaras submitted this footage to National Geographic in the weeks leading up to his death,. I was streaming the weather warnings at work throughout that afternoon, and the KOCO weather forecasters distinctly advised driving home if you could make it by 4pm and if you had a sturdy shelter at home. He designed, built, and deployed instrument probes to measure atmospheric variables such as pressure and wind in the path of tornadoes. He almost certainly didn't know that the rain-shrouded vortex was hooking toward him, to the northeast, and that he had entered its circulation. Nine were confirmed dead in the Oklahoma City area on Friday evening, though the death toll has since risen, and flash floods in Arkansas caused additional fatalities, including a sheriff trying to rescue people from rising waters. It was over in just minutes, when we climbed the stairs half the house was gone but nearly all the houses on the street in back of us where gone! According to Mr West, their vehicle looked ' like it had gone through a trash compactor' when it was found. Violent weather also moved through the St. Louis area. But forecasters could pinpoint a relatively compact geographical region that would feel the effects of the hurricane, and they could do so with 24-48 hours notice. They are acting in the interests of public safety. I've always been told never to try and outrun a tornado, it is one of the most dangerous things you can do. In 2012, storm chaser Andy Gabrielson died while driving home from a chase when a wrong-way driver struck his vehicle on Interstate 44 in Sapulpa, Okla. The National Weather Service said the severe weather threat would shift into neighboring Illinois and Missouri, where Governor Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency on Friday. >>> I support this 100%. Mr. Robinson also had forward and side facing dash cams operating that day and the Twistex crew's Chevy is the only other vehicle visible in any direction on Reuter Rd for the last 15 or 20 minutes of the chase. Terry Garcia, executive vice president of the National Geographic Society, said: 'We were shocked and deeply saddened by the news that longtime National Geographic grantee Tim Samaras was killed in a tornado in Oklahoma on Friday, along with Tim's son Paul and their colleague Carl Young. Run them through the DMV and send out those tickets. I don't think so! Tim Samaras, 55, was found dead still belted into the mangled wreck, while the bodies of his son, 24, and Young, 45, were flung a quarter-mile away in opposite directions. The rain was coming down horizontally in front of my car. In this country, if a cyclone alert is issued, all roads are closed. 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It gets logistically harder to do this if the affected area includes Cairns or Brisbane, because if you are evacuating people from low-lying areas you have to leave the roads open long enough for them to get out. So, if you live in Oklahoma City and figure there may be tornadoes coming later in the day, there is nothing to guarantee that driving north to Aunt Millies house in Enid, OK will not put you in the path of one of the tornadoes that happen to form that day. Tim shared data and results. Such a regulation or law would also require consideration of a certification of professional status for actual professional storm chasers. His graduation was at Alameda International High School in 1976. "
, The 'extreme cruelty' around the global trade in frog legs, What does cancer smell like? And we're wasting it on stupid, silly things like party balloons. See also: The Last Ride of Legendary Storm Chaser Tim Samaras). However the generic advice makes a lot of sense. The men spent years capturing and sharing storm videos with TV viewers and weather researchers. This story has been shared 160,448 times. Photographed with a wide angle lens, the mile-wide tornado, is seen near El Reno, Jack-knifed: Traffic slowly moves around a semi tractor-trailer that was blown off the highway by the tornado on Oklahoma Interstate-40, Stranded: Vehicles trapped by flash flooding sit underneath on the road in Oklahoma City after severe thunderstorms brought tornadoes, high winds, heavy rain and hail to the area. 'That's a very unwise thing to do because it's the absolute worst place you can be during a tornado.'. Tim Samaras, his son Paul and colleague Carl Young died Friday night when an EF3 tornado with winds up to 165 mph turned on them near El Reno, Okla. After years of sharing dramatic videos with. I suggest that law makers in tornado alley states consider legislation making it a violation to intentionally drive into or near the path of known or likely tornados. Injuries that were INCOMPATIBLE WITH LIFE. Many still believe mountains and rivers save towns. More than 210,000 customers lost electricity in the areas affected by the storm. It's your life so guard it like you own it. That seems to be what happened here. Contrast that, as bad as it was, with Dan Robinson's video from the El Reno, OK tornado that killed Tim Samaras, his son Paul and his long-time chase partner Carl Young. He had a road map spread across the kitchen table! Before the horrific events of May 31, 2013, when the huge El Reno tornado took the lives of scientist Tim Samaras and his crew, a twister had never killed any chasers although several had died. Road closures exist now, but there are lots of roads. Later analysis of the situation indicates that there was indeed a traffic jam enhanced risk for several storm chasers, caused by the ill advised comments from local media (as described below) but that this happened after Samaras and his crew were killed, in a different location, and that this happened to not cause any deaths. "We're trying to collect as many observations as possible, both from outside and from the inside. Yes, Houston is a bigger city than OKC, and one of the freeway routes out of town takes you to Galveston, which is exactly the wrong way to go. Take note at 3:09 - that's the edge of the tornado visible in the right side of the frame as it grows to nearly 2.6 miles across - the largest ever recorded. Three experienced tornado chasers actual meteorological scientists were killed when their truck (one of the vehicles depicted above, probably) was destroyed by the tornado. NBC News reported that the passengers were herded to the basement and told to put their hands on their heads as they waited out the storm. I have lived in the Oklahoma City area for 37 years and have been professionally chasing storms for the last 18 years. 528 people were killed by weather in 2012, of which about 200 were a result of high velocity air. People were going southbound in the northbound lanes. They should not drive where they will not be able to pull over safely to allow emergency traffic and other traffic to flow. Apply that technology to license plates instead of faces. I'm not saying I agree with it, but this is not something he suddenly started doing. Amateur chasers don't want there to be strong evidence that what they do endangers themselves or others, so they want chaser-enhanced traffic jams to be taken out of the picture. It may be only a matter of seconds before you have time to find shelter. That's really all I have to say on that issue. Discovery Channel said it will honor the three veteran storm chasers, who regularly appeared on its show Stormchasers, with a special airing this week. They look up that license plate in the DMV database and conveniently send the summons to you in the mail. Heres the technology that helped scientists find itand what it may have been used for. Thanks for contacting us. 'If you live in downtown Oklahoma City, please go below ground. But that. They were killed near El Reno in an EF3 tornado with winds up to 165 mph that ripped through the Oklahoma City area during rush hour. Also, we all have to take responsibility for our own safety and try and do what's best for you. Local news reported an estimated 1,200 people were at the airport and were herded to the basement to wait out the storm. I'm reminded of Grand Island, NE in 1980, when the tornadoes defied everything we supposedly know about them. Traffic will back up in the places rush hour traffic normally backs up, and some others that usually don't see such backups. Samaras acknowledged the dangerous weather conditions Friday in his final tweet before his death: Individuals and institutions across the fields of storm-chasing, meteorology, and media expressed their sorrow and condolences to the victims' families Sunday. But Fridays massive tornado avoided the highly populated areas near and around Oklahoma City, and forecasters said that likely saved lives. Dan Robinson had a clear view of their white Chevy Cobalt in his rear facing dash cam as they pulled up to and crossed Hwy 81 until their headlights fade behind the outer wall of the suction vortex that killed them. The breathtakingly fast subvortex -- the tornado within a tornado -- is visible to the south in footage captured by fellow chaser Dan Robinson's rear dashboard cameras as he fled several hundred yards ahead of Samaras. I doubt it. Samaras holds the Guinness World Record for the largest measured pressure drop inside a tornado. I agree, Chris, that the specific suggestion that I made in the post that existing protocol should allow emergency personnel to keep roads clear. Storm chasers being killed by storms isn't even a problem. Not to mention what small town or rural county has the manpower to do so when budgets are stretched so thin? Five tornadoes battered the Oklahoma City area on Friday, while another tornado hit the Tulsa area early Saturday. Common sense will tell you to collect the data that meteorologist have had for years about how tornado's form and come up with an idea that makes these conditions less favorable maybe even do tests on a smaller scale. The people could be driving for many unattributed reasons. Academic Postmortem of Tornado that Killed Tim Samaras Is Chilling Brantley Hargrove October 1, 2013 1:50PM The American Meteorological Society has released a preliminary version of its. It made all the difference that it was out in the country.'. Your argument that talking about a way to address a situation in which people lose their lives is inappropriate because the situation is an emotional tragedy is actually the misguided reaction. And now Watch: I can at least understand why news crews were in the vicinity, but they didn't really need to be there either. I think it's exactly as you said; these are bona fide emergencies and thus are precisely the situations that they should already be empowered to act in. The gas you'd save would easily pay for a shovel. They can't have this, because the traffic is a factor, but yes, Samaras and his crew were not killed this way. In reply to by Tom McDonald (not verified). Salvaging: A chef at Gilmore's Kitchen at the OKC-West Stockyards, is framed by the kitchen pass-through window on the only kitchen wall still remaining as he checks tornado damage in El Reno, Childcare center: The devastation caused by Friday's storms included a wind turbine blade crashing into a daycare center, fortunately no children were inside, Remains: A man looks for items in what is left of a house in El Reno, Oklahoma on Saturday, Damage: A family inspect the office of what is left of the livestock auction business near El Reno, Oklahoma. They all unfortunately passed away but doing what they loved.'. But I'll just say that I think there are less extreme solutions than putting a ban on all amateur storm chasing. A Carrollton High School Claims Employee Gave Student Prescription Drugs, Rep. Nate Schatzline, Under Fire for 'Drag' Video, Accused of 'Doxxing' Keller ISD Mom, Another Carrollton Fentanyl Arrest and an On-Campus Overdose at R.L. I think that Tim Samaras knew what he was doing. 'It was chaos. >>> They were in a car, not a truck. 'The trees were leaning literally to the ground. He skipped out on chasing the massive tornado that flattened Moore, Okla., because it was too dangerous. Good day to you sir. People started driving over the grass.'. Having grown up in Wichita, Ks., I'm well aware of the unpredictability of tornadoes; though technology has greatly improved forcasting, tornadoes will remain highly unpredictable. I'll never do it again.'. Samaras was killed along with his son Paul and storm chaser Carl Young in Friday's tornado in El Reno, Oklahoma. The last people out will be stuck in traffic. This probe registered a world-record 100-millibar drop in pressure inside the twister. "He was a groundbreaker in terms of the kind of research he was doing on severe thunderstorms and tornadoes," Dr. Forbes said on The Weather Channel Sunday morning. After 20 seconds, it rotates back around to the south side of the tornado. But seriously, I'll be talking about the story of the current, In every area of life, but especially in the overlapping realms of technology, science, and health, misunderstanding how things work can be widespread, and that misunderstanding can lead to problems. Actually there were other comments that could even make an above ground room safer. Lucky escape: A meteorologist from The Weather Channel was injured after his car (seen here) was thrown 200 yards by the storm, Waterway: A man uses a jetski to travel between his home and Osage City, after Missouri was affected by severe flooding, Storm damage: Navy veterans inspect the washed out road where they pulled a woman and her daughter to safety after their car flooded, A family in El Reno, Oklahoma inspect what is left of their home after Friday night's tornadoes battered the local area, Rain: Parts of Oklahoma City experience extreme flooding after multiple tornadoes passed through Central Oklahoma, For more videos, please go to the Long Center Austin. At least six semis on their side at a weight station on I-40 near Oklahoma City, photographer Jim Beckel reported. He knew what to look for. Samaras was killed along with his son Paul and storm chaser Carl Young in Friday's tornado. The EF5 storm that hit Moore decimated neighborhoods. So when an alert is issued the authorities only have a few roads to close, and not much population to evacuate. Christopher, I've heard from their own lips complaints by professional storm chasers about the looky-lous that clog up the roads, so probably both. Carl Young, Timothy Samaras and his . -Benoit Mandelbrot Though the state's transportation authorities strongly advised citizens not to drive, some interstate highways in Oklahoma were jammed with stalled traffic, as heavy rains drenched roadways and flooded low-lying areas. An outright ban is prolly a bad idear too. Belongings: A woman finds personal photos for a neighbor from the remains of her home destroyed by violent thunderstorms across the Midwest, Ruins: People walk near cars and trees damaged by a tornado at the Canadian Valley Technology Center in El Reno, Oklahoma on Saturday morning. From the Texas border to near Joplin, Mo., residents were told to keep an eye to the sky and an ear out for sirens. Sun rise: Tornado debris hangs from a destroyed billboard sign along Interstate-40 Westbound after violent thunderstorms spawned tornadoes that menaced Oklahoma City and its already hard-hit suburb of Moore on Friday, Air chaos: At Will Rogers World Airport, 2,000 people spent the night sheltering in underground tunnels, Overturned: Authorities say people ignored advice to sit tight and attempted to leave the area - perhaps as a reaction to the previous tornado almost two weeks ago, Lightning: A storm chaser in Cushing stopped to take photos of the dramatic moment two lightning strikes hit the ground, Tragic: Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers found the bodies of a woman and an infant near their vehicle. 'For reasons that are not clear to me, more people took to the roads, more than we expected. The three had no chance, said Tim Samaras brother, Jim. He was killed because an unusual and unprecedented tornado acted in an unpredictable manor and sadly cost him, his son, and chase partner their lives. A 51-year-old teacher's assistant who also tried to run from the storm said she quickly regretted her decision, after becoming stuck in traffic in the path of the tornado. The update from the National Weather Service means the Oklahoma City area has seen two of the extremely rare EF5 tornadoes in only 11 days. Today three brave, highly experienced, storm chasers were honored in El Reno. But if the Acme Office Building, on Main Street, is on fire, broken glass is blowing out of windows and fire trucks and other emergency vehicles are trying to gain access to the building and nearby fire hydrants, and ambulances are trying to get in to pick up injured, and out to bring them to hospitals, you cant walk down Main Street. 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