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TWISTEX (a
backronym for
Tactical Weather-Instrumented
Sampling in/near
Tornadoes Experiment) was a
tornado research experiment that was
founded and led...
- the
third season.
During the 2009 season, the
series also do****ented the
TWISTEX team, led by
engineer and
veteran storm chaser Tim Samaras, who was killed...
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immense size and
erratic movement were
caught off-guard. Near U.S. 81,
TWISTEX scientist and
engineer Tim Samaras,
along with his son Paul and research...
- 2013) was an
American meteorologist and
storm chaser who
worked with the
TWISTEX research team. He was one of the
first storm chasers in the
United States...
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called Tactical Weather Instrumented Sampling in
Tornadoes EXperiment (
TWISTEX),
which sought to
better understand tornadoes. His work was
funded in large...
- team
known as
TWISTEX, led by
veteran storm chaser Tim Samaras,
along with Carl
Young and Tony Laubach, join the
series driving TWISTEX Probe (a modified...
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several field research projects and is one of the
surviving members of
TWISTEX. He has been
contracted as a
severe weather photojournalist for various...
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taking the
lives of
tornado researcher Tim Samaras, his son Paul, and
their TWISTEX colleague, Carl Young. This
storm also took the life of
local amateur chaser...
- the next year's
Great Tornado Hunt
chase season. The same
tornado killed TWISTEX storm chasers Tim Samaras, his son Paul, and
colleague Carl Young. Local...
- hour (504 km/h). This
tornado is
notable for
causing the
death of 3 team
Twistex researchers and was the
first tornado recorded to kill
storm chasers. EF4...