*New Users. Meet and Greet Area*

[Elliott Budd]

Hello my name is Elliott Budd and I am from Kokomo, IN. I have been a weather enthusiast since I can remember. Every time a storm goes by I have to go out and watch and love it when there is bad weather(good for me!). I hope to learn a lot on this forum!

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[JDMattern]

Long time lurker but finally back into the Midwest, for the time being. Finally have a real source of income, so should be able to do some real chasing this season other than having to stick to local events. I will be posting some very basic, mediocre forecasting attempts when systems come along to try and increase my skills, so bear with how simplistic and off-track they might be...its a work in progress but I'm getting better at it.

I'm sure there's some others on here in central KS, so keep an ear out for me (KD0NKW) I'll be trying to hang out on the K-Link when I'm roaming around.

Hope to see some of y'all in the field.

Thanks

 

[Sam Luthi]

Hey everyone, I'm Sam and I'm currently a junior in high school (hope I don't catch too much heat from this). I've been stalking around on this forum for a few months, and I've finally gotten around to introducing myself to y'all. I currently live in eastern Kansas, and I'm excited for the 2014 season (even though all the snow makes me think it will never happen).

Anyway, I hope to go to either Iowa State, Oklahoma, or Miami (FL) for a meteorology degree. I've always been a math and science guy, and I've loved weather since I was 4 years old.

I'm happy to be on the forum, and I'm excited to absorb as much information as I can!

Thanks everyone!
-Sam

 

[Wes Carter]

Elliot, Sam, JD; welcome to Stormtrack. I hope you enjoy this forum and learn a lot from it. I credit this forum and the people I met here for a lot I've learned about chasing and forecasting. I still have much to learn, so I still peruse the library here and older posts. It's a treasure trove of information.


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[jmperretta]

Hello everyone!

My name is Jason and I've been a weather-nerd since I experienced my first hurricane when I was 11 years old (Hurricane Gloria 1985 - Long Island, NY). Ever since then, I have had a burning desire to learn more about the weather and what makes things tick "up there."

Currently, I live in Fort Myers, Florida and while our summer afternoon thunderstorms do not shine a candle to what the Midwestern states get, we get a few tornado producing storms down here that are worth a quick hop in the car and drive down the street. When I'm not chasing storms, tracking hurricanes (some of my friends and I get together and place bets on where the eye will make landfall - if it's a major hurricane - we don't bet because at that point, it'll be a life changer for someone who gets it), or reading about the weather, I do like to spend time with my wife and kids (4 year old daughter and 2 year old son), operate my amateur radio station (KD4HML) - you can find me on the 10 meter band (28.420 Mhz), and visit Disney World (I'm about 3 hours away) every chance I get. On the professional front, I work in I.T. as a project manager, but I prefer the technical side of I.T. and I'm in the process of wrapping up dissertation where I'll be graduating with my Ph.D. in Information Systems from Nova Southeastern University by the end of the year.

Happy Storm Chasing!

Jason M. Perretta | KD4HML
Fort Myers, FL

 

[Skip Talbot]

We just had a whole bunch of new signups. Stop by here and introduce yourselves. This forum needs people who post, not lurkers. We're all pretty friendly for the most part, and this is a great place to meet fellow chasers and weather enthusiasts.

Hello everyone!

Welcome, Jason!

 

[Shane Adams]

Welcome to the Asylum Jason

 

[mabus]

Hi everyone, my name is Matt, and I'm located in the Pacific Northwest - a gorgeous place to live, but seriously short on thunderstorms! I lived in the south and Midwest until I was 10 though, so I got it in my blood early and have continued to return to the severe storm capable areas almost every year. I've been lucky enough to see a few tornadoes in my life (including one in Eastern Oregon - got lucky there...), I've been through a cat 3 typhoon, and am looking forward to more! Not a lurker any more .

I'm heading to the Plains in May, and hope that this year turns out to be better than it currently looks like it is going to be. But it's still early...

 

[JamesCaruso]

Hello everyone!

My name is Jason and I've been a weather-nerd since I experienced my first hurricane when I was 11 years old (Hurricane Gloria 1985 - Long Island, NY). Ever since then, I have had a burning desire to learn more about the weather and what makes things tick "up there."


Jason M. Perretta | KD4HML
Fort Myers, FL

Welcome Jason! I was living in Queens when Hurricane Gloria came and that was a big event for me too (I was on the extreme western side so not a big impact, but the drama of the approach was interesting enough) although I was 17 then and weather was already in my blood. But nice to know we had that experience in common!

 

[William Skinner]

Hello all, my name is William Skinner, and I'm a spotter from Cobb County, GA. I've been interested in severe weather since I was a little kid, I hated going to the basement during a storm cause I wanted to watch it roll in. I've been spotting and locally chasing for a few years now. I also recently got around to getting my amateur radio license, so that should come in use in future events, and I'm getting connected with the local ARES chapter here.
Anyways, just wanted to say a quick hello to the community and a thank you for accepting my membership!

 

[Jeremy Jones]

Afternoon Folks,

My name is Jeremy Jones, I was a member of the board for a while but think I was lost in the move to the new server. Either way, coming back to the board for the 2014 season!

I am 31yrs old, live in Edmond, OK and have been filming SVR Wx since 08' when my dad and I went out in late May and got to see the Orlando/Mulhall Tornadoes! Since that time,
I have become absolutely ate up with storm chasing! Last year, I got to see and film my first EF5 from close range, in the Moore Tornado. Then came the El-Reno Tornado, from which
my dad and I became trapped in traffic with the evacuation of the metro in process. To be completely honest, that experience almost made me give up chasing. But quickly decided to
learn from it, rather than abandoning one of my passions in life.

I'm looking forward to participating and sharing my chases again on this board! Thanks for having me!

 

[Seth Price]

"... you can find me on the 10 meter band (28.420 Mhz)"

Excellent. I try to get on HF when I storm chase as well- at least until the storms start to fire. I typically hang out on 20 meters (14.336 MHz) on the county hunter net, but I do love 10 meters. Are you a Ten-Ten member?

 

[MattG]

Hi all

I have been lurking on Stormtrack for a while. I live in Chicago, IL, about 1 block from Wrigley Field. I've been interested in weather my whole life, particularly in how it affected my hobbies, general aviation when I was younger (20s) and now offshore sailing (30s and 40s). My wife and I own a sailboat in Chicago which we both race and cruise. I have the privilege of serving as the chairman of the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac for the next two years. The Mac is one of the most prestigious offshore sailboat races in the world, with over 300 boats and 3000 sailors annually racing up Lake Michigan and Lake Huron 289 nm from Chicago to Mackinac Island, MI.

My interest in severe weather derives mainly from its impact on mariners. Great Lakes sailors, in particular, are greatly affected by the severe weather that occurs in the upper Midwest. This weather can cause tragedies such as the loss of life in the 2011 Chicago Mac; I was located on my boat about 3 NM from where those sailors died and suffered through the same storm.

I'm a 2012 graduate of the Penn State Certificate of Achievement in Weather Forecasting program, which I highly recommend to anyone who wants a more formal education in meteorology but, like me, cannot go back to school full time for it.

My day job is as a lawyer in Chicago focusing on real estate transactions.

I'm looking forward to continuing my education here.

Matt

 

[Elliott Budd]

Welcome to the board Matt!

 

[Tyler Graham]

New User to the Forum

Hello, Stormtrack users! My name is Tyler Graham, and I am rather late about issuing out this post. I saw Stormtrack quite a while ago and decided to sign up, but I never posted. Once I started looking into the forum, I realized there were a lot of well-known stormchasers who are highly respected, and I was hesitant to post due to a feeling of not just wanting to jump right in as well as a little intimidation (not in a bad way). But I have decided to go ahead and introduce myself, and I can feel that the Stormtrack community is like a massive family through reading the multitude of threads on the forum. I am very excited to start posting and getting to know some of you guys and learning as much as I can. A little bit about myself now...I am a sophomore in high school (16 years old) and have been interested in weather ever since I was little. I have been certified as a SKYWARN Stormspotter in the KLZK WFO. Within the past two years or so I have started getting into chasing, coinciding with an increasing interest in meteorology, and I realize that it is incredibly dangerous and risky, but I have a very deep passion for meteorology and the only way to learn more and to understand more about severe weather is to indulge yourself in it. I had chased last year during the late May setups in Oklahoma (May 19 and May 30, missing the massive outbreaks on each day to follow...) and it changed my life. Many, if not most, of my chases have been fairly close to home in White Hall, AR anywhere from Humnoke, AR to Stuttgart, AR and some of my most beautiful and incredible photos I have ever taken have come from these chases just 30 minutes from home. My hobby, alongside learning about severe weather and meteorology in general, is severe weather photography. Severe weather photography is an incredible challenge, yet so rewarding. I have just started getting really good at photography here within the past couple of years with a new camera and better knowledge of severe storms and cameras. Many of the pictures that I have taken, especially from May 19th 2013, have really made me appreciate the severe side of weather and really give me the determination to keep on chasing and to continue to learn. It also gives me the strive to see a tornado, which I never have. My dad and I and my grandpa and I have logged so many miles, and so many rewarding pictures that I treasure deeply. We plan to chase this spring across the plains and add to the collection with both knowledge and pictures. Here recently I have just purchased (and will be making payments) on a truck my grandpa had, and already it is SKYWARN oriented, with magnets and a soon to be license plate holder and key chain . But anyway, getting back on topic, I would just like to announce to the users of the forum a little bit about myself and that I am looking forward to posting and really getting to know everybody and learn a lot. Thank you for maintaining such an intuitive forum and thank you all for your time!