Hundreds of storm chasers and weather geeks mourned the death of U.S. actor Bill Paxton ... SEE ALSO: Bill Paxton, star of '80s and '90s genre films and TV, dead at 61 In the movie, Paxton and ...

After the worst tornado in his life, Reed pursues a new force of nature in TV weather ... to tragedy as Storm Chasers loses one of its own. Sean's team struggles with the death of a teammate ...

However, until recently, there had never been a recorded death of a tornado chaser ... the tight-knit community of professional storm chasers suffered a wrenching loss when three well-known ...

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.