While excitement is part of the job, ONeil says that view misses the deeper purpose behind professional storm chasing. “There ...
Being a storm chaser has its highs and lows, sometimes very close together. AccuWeather storm chaser Reed Timmer knows about these firsthand. "I absolutely love what I do as a storm chaser. When I'm ...
Years later, now a professional storm chaser, he's created a community of 470,000 followers on TikTok and over 155,000 on Instagram Unlike many storm chasers, Edgar ONeal didn’t grow up glued to ...
In 2023, a storm chase group was trapped inside of their Toyota Camry in the vortex of a killer tornado. But for the grace of God all survived, including Tanner Charles. Here he tells his story.
The 2025 tornado season was good to this novice storm chaser, with a half-dozen twisters in the books. What will next year bring? We’ll see. An EF-U tornado with invisible vortex churns up dust in ...
A storm chaser has captured what he considers "the most insane" tornado he has ever seen on Saturday. Extreme meteorologist Reed Timmer caught the tornado on video just west of Gary, Minnesota, and ...
We headed to Tornado Alley to meet extreme meteorologist Reed Timmer and check out how he drives directly into the world's ...
When most people picture a marriage proposal, they imagine candlelight, maybe a sunset or a scenic overlook. But for Paige Berdomas and Bryce Shelton, two storm chasers brought together by their ...
As the howling tornado bore down, Reed Timmer abandoned a tiny, soft-topped vehicle and sought shelter with a group underneath an overpass. This was early on in his storm-chasing career, in 1999, ...
A small funnel cloud forms in the distance during a supercell thunderstorm, May 8, 2017 in Elbert County, Colorado. Credit - Drew Angerer—Getty Images When I began my career as a producer at The ...
Jesse Gillett is a senior at UConn. Originally from Stafford, Gillett has chased tornadoes in the Great Plains the past two ...