May 31, 2013, will always be remembered as a day of pure shock and heartbreak. The widest tornado in history—a 2.6-mile-wide monster—wasn’t just a natural disaster; it was a death sentence. It claimed the lives of the people who knew storms better than anyone, veterans who spent years looking death in the eye for the sake of science. Tim Samaras, his son Paul, and Carl Young.
The el reno tornado also claimed the life of Richard Henderson. This tornado injured Mike Bettes,and Emily Sutton and storm chaser Kevin Josefy.
