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Turn and sped towards them. >> get down! duck down! duck down! >> close by, this storm chaser captured the power of winds of at least 136 miles an hour. flipping over this tractor trailer, pushing it along interstate 40. >> turn to my right, thats what it looks like in radar. it was tracking south of the i-40. tracking south. oh, god. >> both of these storm chasing teams survived. another team led by veteran storm chaser tim samaras, did not. samaras, along with his 24-year-old son paul and long...

Young, were killed. >> whoa! its getting bigger! okay. we better leave. >> samaras was a legend in the chasing community, featured on the discovery channels "storm chasers" he was known for not only being one of the best but one of the safest. so how could this have happened? >> this tornado was a very large tornado and a very strong tornado, and it had an erratic path so this tornado was going east, then it went north, so i think that took people by surprise. >> this was the path the tornado wa...

Flipping over this tractor trailer, pushing it along interstate 40. >> turn to my right, thats what it looks like in radar. it was tracking south of the i-40. tracking south. oh, god. >> both of these storm chasing teams survived. another team led by veteran storm chaser tim samaras, did not. samaras, along with his 24-year-old son paul and long-time chase partner carl young, were killed. >> whoa! its getting bigger! okay. we better leave. >> samaras was a legend in the chasing community, featur...

I mean, tim was a part of, you know, the research community. and, you know, during that day he was running with the mission of placing pods in front of this tornado. so, yeah, the data he collects, you know, is something that benefits, you know, our larger community, and understanding, you know, what these tornadoes can do, their behavior, which storms produce them. as far as a chaser, you know, the whole chasing community is in utter shock over this because tim samaras was one of the top five g...