News Cut: February 5, 2012 Archive

Tribute to a storm chaser

Posted at 11:37 AM on February 5, 2012 by Bob Collins (1 Comments)
Filed under: Weather

Andy Gabrielson of Luverne, Minn., was killed by a wrong-way driver in Oklahoma. Gabrielson, a "storm chaser," was on his way home from a chase in Texas yesterday when he died near Tulsa.

He saw his first tornado when he was 6 near his home, and he said he was fascinated by them ever since.

The storm chasing community paid tribute to him by "lighting up" their GPS tracking systems in his honor...

Here's an interview with him, and some of the video for which he won an Emmy.