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Warren Faidley

Warren Faidley

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Warren Faidley is a professional storm chaser, photojournalist, and author recognized as one of the first people to make a career pursuing and photographing extreme weather events including tornadoes, hurricanes, and lightning storms. As a guest on late-night radio, his dramatic firsthand accounts of nature's most violent phenomena and his stunning photography brought the raw power and beauty of severe weather to life for the late-night audience.

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Episode thumbnail for April 15, 2002: Storm Chaser - Warren Faidley

April 15, 2002: Storm Chaser - Warren Faidley

Apr 15, 2002
2h 48m
Storm chaser and photojournalist Warren Faidley joins Art Bell to discuss extreme weather, tornadoes, and the destructive Pahrump windstorm that opens the broadcast. Local callers describe roofs torn away, pole barns lifted and deposited in neighboring yards, chain-link fences ripped from the ground, and zero visibi...
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Episode thumbnail for November 11, 2015: Storm Chasing - Warren Faidley

November 11, 2015: Storm Chasing - Warren Faidley

Nov 11, 2015
2h 24m
Art Bell welcomes Warren Faidley, widely regarded as America's original and premier storm chaser, for a wide-ranging conversation about severe weather, tornado science, and the evolving culture of storm chasing. Faidley recounts his journey from newspaper journalist to full-time extreme weather photographer, beginni...