Footage has been posted on social media showing two tornadoes hitting the Wharton and Harris counties in Texas on Thursday.

While most everyone in the area hunkered in basements, a team of nine scientists — storm chasers — sought to get as close as ...

We are off chasing down a tornado and trying to stop it from destroying the Futuroscope Park. We follow Alex and Melanie, using Alex's vehicle to approach close to the tornado. Eventually we get ...

A video the friends were live-streaming for the Weather ... Williamson, Yarnall and Jaeger - a respected storm chaser working for the National Weather Service - were all killed on the spot.

Both men featured on Storm Wranglers, a programme on the channel. The lawsuit says the feed from their chase was broadcast live on the Weather Channel's Facebook feed at the time of the crash.

A first and hopefully obvious point: just don’t do this. [ChasinSpin] and [ReedTimmer] are experienced storm chasers, and have a small fleet of purpose-built armored vehicles at their disposal.

Racing towards a potentially deadly storm may sound like an absurd thing to do – but for some scientific researchers, chasing extreme weather can be enlightening as well as exhilarating.