One of the people I interviewed at the 2010 National Storm Chaser Convention was storm chaser Tim Samaras from Colorado. Some of you might remember him from Season 3 of the Discovery Channel show, Storm Chasers. Tim has actually been around chasing storms for quite a while. I’ve known Tim I guess since about 2002 or so when I began helping them with the convention promotion on the Internet. Tim along with Roger Hill of course, helps organize the convention each year. Tim is one of the busiest guys I know in storm chasing and always has a bunch of cool projects going on. In this video interview, he talks candidly about some of them!
Category: Storm Chasing
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Storm Chaser Mike Umscheid
Continuing my series of interviews from the 2010 National Storm Chaser Convention, here is one with Mike Umscheid. Mike has been storm chasing for quite some time and has built up an impressive gallery of photography he sells to support his storm chasing. Mike’s regular job is Lead Forecaster at the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Dodge City. Mike was working the radar the night that Greensburg, KS was devastated by an EF5 tornado. Mike correctly called what I believe was the first ever “Tornado Emergency” when he realized what was about to happen, and no doubt saved many lives that night.
In this video he shows us around some of his photography and gives us some personal insight on his Greensburg experience.