Michael Bettes (born 1972) is an American television meteorologist and storm chaser who works for The Weather Channel in Atlanta, Georgia.

A year later, he and his crew returned to the Great Plains to forecast and report severe weather as part of the 2014 Tornado Track.

They stopped to assist Bettes and his wounded team alongside Oklahoma Highway Patrol and other first responders, but had to leave to escape the back end of the storm.

The same tornado killed TWISTEX storm chasers Tim Samaras, his son Paul, and colleague Carl Young.

Local resident Richard Charles Henderson was also killed in the same area as the TWISTEX crew after deciding to chase the storm.