Connor McCrorey
EF3
Hello everyone, I'm Connor. I'm 16 years old and live in Plano, Texas. I have always loved severe weather (you have to living here!) and began seriously trying to learn all I could on my own about two years ago. This year I began chasing with my dad. He never studied weather, but he did grow up in north Texas and had a similar (though not as intense) fascination for it.
I believe this was a great first chase season, although we never saw a tornado we came close! We were very near the EF-0 near Lipan, TX, on 4/23, but it was completely rain-wrapped, and all we ever got was golf ball sized hail in extremely high winds (the truck was nicely dented up after that one). We also were right on the tail of the Stuttgart, AR, EF-3, but in that terrain with those storm motions? No way did we catch that thing! Strangely, the closest we came wasn't during a chase, but after one. An EF-1 touched down just a few blocks from my house near 3:00 in the morning, and the straight-line winds were so strong that it wasn't the sirens that woke me up, it was my house shaking!
I look forward to learning more for years and years to come, and I am very happy to have such a wonderful place as Stormtrack to do it. Thanks Tim, the moderators, and everyone else who keeps this place running for allowing me to be a part of Stormtrack!
I believe this was a great first chase season, although we never saw a tornado we came close! We were very near the EF-0 near Lipan, TX, on 4/23, but it was completely rain-wrapped, and all we ever got was golf ball sized hail in extremely high winds (the truck was nicely dented up after that one). We also were right on the tail of the Stuttgart, AR, EF-3, but in that terrain with those storm motions? No way did we catch that thing! Strangely, the closest we came wasn't during a chase, but after one. An EF-1 touched down just a few blocks from my house near 3:00 in the morning, and the straight-line winds were so strong that it wasn't the sirens that woke me up, it was my house shaking!
I look forward to learning more for years and years to come, and I am very happy to have such a wonderful place as Stormtrack to do it. Thanks Tim, the moderators, and everyone else who keeps this place running for allowing me to be a part of Stormtrack!
