Editing Storm chasing (section)

==Ethics==
A growing number of experienced storm chasers advocate the adoption of a code of [[ethics]] in storm chasing featuring safety, courtesy, and objectivity as the backbone.<ref name="Doswell ethics">{{cite web |last=Doswell III  |first=Charles A.  |title=Storm Chasing with Safety, Courtesy, and Responsibility  |url=http://www.flame.org/~cdoswell/chasesums/Chase_safety.html  |publisher=Michael Graff  |access-date=21 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090121113806/http://www.flame.org/~cdoswell/chasesums/Chase_safety.html  |archive-date=21 January 2009 |date=4 April 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal  |last=Moller  |first=Alan  |author-link=Alan Moller  |title=Storm Chase Ethics  |journal=Storm Track  |volume=15  |issue=3  |pages=8–9  |date=Mar 1992  |url=http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~stumpf/cethics.html  |access-date=21 April 2008 |archive-date=2 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191002225840/http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~stumpf/cethics.html  |url-status=live  }}</ref> Storm chasing is a highly visible recreational activity (which is also associated with [[science]]) that is vulnerable to sensationalist media promotion.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stormtrack.org/library/faq/|title=The Online Storm Chasing FAQ by Roger Edwards and Tim Vasquez|website=stormtrack.org|access-date=3 August 2019|archive-date=5 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190705010211/https://stormtrack.org/library/faq/|url-status=live}}</ref> Veteran storm chasers [[Charles A. Doswell III|Chuck Doswell]] and [[Roger Edwards (meteorologist)|Roger Edwards]] deemed reckless storm chasers as "yahoos".<ref>{{cite web  |last=Edwards  |first=Roger  |author-link=Roger Edwards (meteorologist)  |title=The Reality of Storm Chase Yahoos  |url=http://www.stormeyes.org/tornado/yahoo.htm  |access-date=21 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722042159/http://www.stormeyes.org/tornado/yahoo.htm  |archive-date=22 July 2011 |date=7 February 2002 |url-status=live }}</ref> Doswell and Edwards believe poor chasing ethics at TV news stations add to the growth of "yahoo" storm chasing.<ref>{{cite web  |title=Irresponsible Media Storm Chase Practices  |url=http://www.stormeyes.org/tornado/media.htm  |access-date=21 April 2008 |author=Edwards, Roger  |author-link= Roger Edwards (meteorologist)  |author2=Doswell, Chuck  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722042257/http://www.stormeyes.org/tornado/media.htm  |archive-date=22 July 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> A large lawsuit<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14808769/piazza-v-weather-group-television-llc/|title=Docket for Piazza v. Weather Group Television, LLC, 5:19-cv-00060 – CourtListener.com|website=CourtListener|access-date=3 August 2019|archive-date=28 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328010516/https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14808769/piazza-v-weather-group-television-llc/|url-status=live}}</ref> was filed against the parent company of The Weather Channel in March 2019 for allegedly keeping on contract storm chaser drivers with a demonstrated pattern of reckless driving which ultimately led to a fatal collision (killing themselves and a storm spotter in the other vehicle) when running a stop sign in Texas in 2017.<ref>{{cite news  |last = Rice  |first = Doyle  |title = $125 million lawsuit filed against Weather Channel for 'horrific' crash that killed 3 during a 2017 tornado chase  |newspaper = USA Today  |date = 26 March 2019 |url = https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/26/storm-chasers-weather-channel-sued-horrific-2017-crash-killed-3/3280264002/  |access-date = 28 March 2019 |archive-date = 28 March 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190328010512/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/26/storm-chasers-weather-channel-sued-horrific-2017-crash-killed-3/3280264002/  |url-status = live  }}</ref> Edwards and Rich Thompson, among others, also expressed concern about pernicious effects of media profiteering<ref>{{cite web  |title=Cancer Within  |url=http://www.stormtrack.org/library/chasing/cancer.html  |access-date=21 February 2012 |author=Rich Thompson  |author2=Roger Edwards  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518182159/http://www.stormtrack.org/library/chasing/cancer.html  |archive-date=18 May 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> with Matt Crowther, among others, agreeing in principle but viewing sales as not inherently corrupting.<ref>{{cite web  |last=Crowther  |first=Matt  |title=Some Chase Musings  |url=http://www.stormtrack.org/library/chasing/musings.html  |access-date=21 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518183023/http://www.stormtrack.org/library/chasing/musings.html  |archive-date=18 May 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> Self-policing is seen as the means to mold the hobby. There is occasional discussion among chasers that at some point government regulation may be imposed due to increasing numbers of chasers and because of poor behavior by some individuals; however, many chasers do not expect this eventuality and almost all oppose regulations—as do some formal studies of dangerous leisure activities which also advocate deliberative [[Industry self-regulation|self-policing]].<ref>{{cite journal  |last = Olivier  |first = Steve  |title = Moral Dilemmas of Participation in Dangerous Leisure Activities  |journal = Leisure Studies  |volume = 25  |issue = 1  |pages = 95–109  |year = 2006  |doi = 10.1080/02614360500284692 |s2cid = 144215919 }}</ref>

As there is for storm chaser conduct, there is concern about chaser responsibility. Since some chasers are trained in [[first aid]] and even [[Certified first responder|first responder]] procedures, it is not uncommon for tornado chasers to be first on a scene and tending to storm victims or treating injuries at the site of a disaster in advance of emergency personnel and other outside aid.<ref>Burgess, Cindy. "[[The Weather Network]]". 2011.</ref>

Aside from questions concerning their ethical values and conduct, many have been accredited for giving back to the community in several ways. Just before the Joplin tornado, Storm Chaser<ref>@Jeff_Piotrowski on Twitter</ref> Jeff Piotrowski provided advanced warning to Officer Brewer of Joplin local law enforcement, prompting them to activate the emergency sirens. Though lives were lost, many who survived accredited their survival to the siren.<ref>{{Cite news  |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/06/01/the-night-that-should-change-tornado-actions-and-storm-chasing-forever  |title=The day that should change tornado actions and storm chasing forever  |last=Samenow  |first=Jason  |date=1 June 2013 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=11 July 2017 |archive-date=7 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170807074607/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/06/01/the-night-that-should-change-tornado-actions-and-storm-chasing-forever/  |url-status=live  }}</ref> After a storm has passed storm chasers are often the first to arrive on the scene to help assist in the aftermath. An unexpected and yet increasingly more common result of storm chasers is the data they provide to storm research from their videos, social video posts and documentation of storms they encounter. After the El Reno tornado in 2013, portals were created for chasers to submit their information to help in the research of the deadly storm.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Crowdsourcing the El Reno 2013 tornado: a new approach for collation and display of storm chaser imagery for scientific applications.  |last=Seimon  |first=Anton  |date=1 November 2016 |journal=Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society  |volume=97 |issue=11 |pages=2069–2084 |doi=10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00174.1 |bibcode=2016BAMS...97.2069S |doi-access=free}}</ref> The El Reno Tornado Environment Display (TED) was created to show a synchronized view of the submitted video footage overlaying radar images of the storm with various chasers' positions.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Seimon |first1=Anton |title=El Reno TED: Tornado Environment Display |url=http://el-reno-survey.net/ted/ |website=El Reno Survey |access-date=27 March 2022}}</ref>