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Warren Faidley (born May 11, 1957) is an American storm chaser. [1] [2] Faidley is credited as the world's first full-time, professional storm photographer. [3] [4]
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Warren Faidley (born May 11, 1957) is an American storm chaser. [1] [2] Faidley is credited as the world's first full-time, professional storm photographer. [3] [4]
Faidley is a graduate from University of Arizona and Pima Community College.
His very first tornado chase landed him in Saragosa, Texas a small community that had been swept away by a violent F4 tornado on May 22, 1987. [5] [6] His professional career was launched in October 1988 after he took a photograph of lightning hitting a light pole in an oil and gasoline tank farm in Tucson, Arizona. The image was published in Life Magazine, [7] [4] billing him as a "Storm Chaser." [8] [7]
In 1997 Faidley was the subject of Stephen Kramer's book Eye of the Storm. [9]
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