This storm spawned the El Reno tornado, which was rated an EF3 despite its very high wind speeds. Photograph by Carsten Peter, National Geographic The meteorological community hailed the enhanced ...

which is about the El Reno storm. The software was developed with support from the National Geographic Society, which had also supported Samaras. Called the Tornado Environment Display (TED ...

For modern-day storm chasers like Tim Samaras, who received several grants from the National Geographic ... couldn’t outrun this storm. The El Reno tornado of 2013 was purpose-built to kill ...

and how the El Reno tornado became the first to kill storm chasers. That’s in the show notes, right there in your podcast app. Overheard at National Geographic is produced by Jacob Pinter ...

Tim Samaras, one of the world's best-known storm chasers, died in Friday's El ... (Read National Geographic's last interview with Tim Samaras.) "Data from the probes helps us understand tornado ...

This story appears in the November 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Unlike its exquisitely geometric counterpart in Rozel, El Reno’s tornado is a black wedge of indistinct composition.

Here’s what scientists do know: A tornado ... Samaras was a scientist and National Geographic explorer who was killed by a twister on May 31, 2013, in El Reno, Oklahoma. (Read about Samaras's ...

That's the question tornado scientist and National Geographic explorer Anton ... techniques they used during a previous project—the El Reno Survey—to learn more about how tornadoes register ...

The tornado that struck El Reno, Okla., Friday "is officially the widest known tornado in the U.S.," says the National Weather Service office in Norman, Okla., announcing today that at its widest ...

The National Weather Service has upgraded the deadly tornado that swept across the El Reno area to an EF-5. On Friday, May 31, five tornadoes touched down in the Oklahoma City metro area ...

The National Weather Service upgraded the El Reno, Oklahoma tornado that hit late last week, killing 18 people, to an EF-5 tornado — the highest, most dangerous, rarest classification.

The tornado that slammed into El Reno, Okla. on Friday night is believed to be widest on record in the U.S. at 2.6 miles across, according to the National Weather Service. The twister beat the ...