Tim Samaras

Tim Samaras. 3,791 likes · 27 talking about this. Gone but never forgotten Timothy M. Samaras (November 12, 1957 – May 31, 2013)

Samaras had an audacious goal, one that would ultimately save lives.

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Tim Samaras, Camera Department: Tornado Video Classics III. His mother talked him into watching The Wizard of Oz (1939) on his family's television when he was six years old. Samaras became fond of the tornado scene. After that scene ended, he had no interest in everything else from that musical film, not even the Wicked Witch. Samaras attended Lasley Elementary and O'Connell Junior High in Lakewood. His ...

“Oh, my God. This is going to be a huge one.”

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.

In 2013, Tim Samaras died in one of the epic storms he'd spent decades chasing. A new book chronicles his harrowing last days

Timothy Michael Samaras (November 12, 1957 – May 31, 2013) was an American engineer and storm chaser best known for his field research on tornadoes and time on the Discovery Channel show, Storm Chasers.