The Many Different Forms of Storm Chasers Today

[BrandonWhittington]

You cant forget the IDIOT CHASER....Self explain....LOL

Can there be a:

SCARED TO DEATH BUDDY CHASER?

None of your buddies will go with you anymore, because you have scared the living crap out of them every time......LOL


My Passion has become an Obsssion.......Thats me..

 

[Shane Adams]

Hrrrrm... I'll play the part of victim and throw myself to the wolves:

What would you call someone who has been obsessed with severe weather 30+ years but lives in a non-severe location, yet still chases whenever practicable (with unbelievably low success), and has finally been put in the right situation and is emigrating to tornado alley?

All with minimal equipment as well?

Immigrant-Rookie chaser?

I'd say "Congratulations"

 

[Keith Mullen]

Thanks Shane...

Perhaps: Immigrant-Rookie-Doesn't Know What He's Getting Into-Chaser....

...and I shall never live a normal life again

 

[Darrin Rasberry]

LOCH NESS CHASER - Someone who claims that every speck of lint or spot of light on their video is some kind of brand new and unexplainable phenomenon never before witnessed by mankind.

IRONO-CHASER - Someone who works incredibly hard on their forecast, so hard in fact that they oversleep the next day and miss the event.

CHERNOBYL CHASER - Someone who can't figure out whether to go south or noth because all the data looks equal, then has a complete psychological meltdown because they can't decide yet don't want to make the wrong decision!



LOL have you considered returning the favor as a joke by repeatedly yelling "Cloud in the sky! There's a big cloud! And it's white and HUGE and going UP and UP and UP!"

Your Loch Ness chaser reminds me of something I think I was a little guilty of a time or two during last summer -

KNEE-JERK CHASER or as Heidi F. puts it "SHERIFFNADO" CHASER - otherwise knowledgeable guy who gets excited during a chase and would phone in a scud as a twister or a rain shower with a thunder crack or two as a severe.

Some others not unlike me:

AHAB CHASER - Chasing to get rid of lifelong nightmares caused by being IN a major tornado and seeing the aftereffects when much younger, with the irony being in that it WORKS to get rid of the nightmares even if the tornado itself remains elusive on chases.

TOMMY LASORDA CHASER - Well-mannered guy who occasionally bursts out in ferocious sailor-language on a busted cell or upon finding out SC #2 down south produced while SC #1 turned out to be trash train-cells.

MIAMI DOLPHINS CHASER - Will inevitably keep updating his record until it reads "1-15, but I got that one little F-0!" at the end of the season.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS CHASER - The inevitable "golden child" of the year who happens to nowcast everything correctly on every day that's not a total bust everywhere.

 

[Maggie Kahman]

The Virtual Chaser is another one. Different from the Arm Chair chaser in many regards.
David Wolfson heads up this branch of chasing IMO. All though his serious virtual drinking problem has caused many to turn their back on him this year. David is notorious for having a virtual cooler of Pabst Blue Ribbon as his chase partner. On multiple occasionas this year David was seen throwing virtual beer cans out his car window while chasing (one of which was intentionally thown at my windshield). David was also caught on virtual video with his virtual pants around his ankles and he wasn't relieving himself at the time. He was virtually pointing (beer in the other hand) and yelling at a research team on the side of a crowded highway near Nickerson, Kansas. I'm not one to point these things out usually, but he was virtually hung like a pimple.
disclaimer - In case you aren't familiar with David's virtual chasing, I made all that up. He's not really a drunk.

LOL!!! You had me rolling around on the floor on that one!!

 

[Andy Wehrle]

Don't forget the "backyard" chaser...the EXTREME local chaser. Look out the window, or step outside!

So far I'm a rookie/local/backyard/airmchair chaser, and I'm not proud to say, announcer chaser during my "backyard" chase of the August 18, 2005 Stoughton F3.

Speaking of which, there's the...

POTTY MOUTH CHASER

Taking TOMMY LASORDA to the next level. If video soundtrack was on network TV, it would sound like Jerry Springer.

"It took the whole (bleep)ing house! OH MY (BLEEP)ING GOD!!! LOOK HOW BIG THAT (BLEEP)ER IS! OH (BLEEP)!

Weberpal knows what I'm talkin' about.

 

[Darrin Rasberry]

HAHAHAHA YOU DID THE STOUGHTON F3??? That's one of my favorites of all time especially with the commentary! I sorta had that in mind for a Tommy Lasorda chaser, except Tommy Lasorda usually blew up at "unfair" stuff so I couldn't lump it in. SAILOR CHASER seemed not quite right. Maybe an analogy to a gentleman with bad language who uses it in sports no matter whether it's a win or loss, and even during the game ... you know, throwing chairs and all that ... i.e. the "BOB KNIGHT CHASER."

Also a few more that hit my head:

MASOCHISTIC CHASER - In specific the guy at McConnell who loses his car but sorta announces it cheeringly as the tornado carelessly tosses it a hundred yards away. "Whoo.... MY CARRRARRRRRARRR!!!" Enjoys a tornado even if it's ripping their property to shreds.

DAVID CARUSO CHASER - Similar to the John Maddenesque chaser mentioned above, except delivers series of obvious and unintentionally funny one-liners worthy of CSI Miami intro segments. These are ALL OVER Youtube.

This was also one of my "plans" for some comedic relief to the seriousness - if my car gets totaled from some baseball sized hail, or rolled with everyone coming out unhurt and intact, I'll HAVE to film the following intentional lines:

CHASE PARTNER VOICEOVER ON CAM, APPROACHING MY TOTALED CAR: "Looks like this guy was out to catch that tornado."

ME (slowly, looking at the car): "Well, it looks like ... " (unfolds sunglasses) " ... the tornado ... " (puts on sunglasses) " ... caught him." (followed by a brief three-second overlay of "YEAAAAHHH!" from The Who).

 

[Andy Wehrle]

I didn't do that particular video, but I did comment quite loudly (although not obscenity-laced, thankfully) on my video soundtrack.

 

[Forrest lambert]

me? im still a virgin chaser, we 1 severe weather outbreak of waterspouts and 1 landspout here in MA. at that time i didnt have any cameras or anything else to use but that was the only time capecod saw some twisters. ive read books and so forth on severe weather so thats not new to me. thats all gonna change when francine and i move back to south dakota in march, then im gonna pop my cherry and chase some twisters

 

[Dusty Hood]

I guess I will fall in the LOCAL/VIRGIN/MEDIA/SPOTTER/WANNABE.........Maybe I can pay someone to upgrade to a WANNABE/ROOKIE/MEDIA/DIAL-UP/ARMCHAIR...............

 

[Paul Redmond]

I would add regional chaser. As I put a distance limit of 5 hours drive time to the storm in any given direction. In any other are except dead center central texas, that would be interstate travel.

 

[Michael Towers]

I was going to describe myself as a “Weekend Warrior” chaser but since I don’t in any way come close to resembling a warrior I think the “Weekend-When-I-Can” type chaser best describes me. My business keeps me buried 6 days a week but every spring I make sure I give myself one long weekend to chase the southern plains. It’s tough, I need to know by Wednesday if a weekend set-up looks promising enough to make travel arrangements and clear the business calendar, but sometimes the calendar can’t be cleared and opportunities are missed. Was gonna go May 4-7 last year but couldn’t and ended up settling for June 1-4.

 

[Susan Strom]

Obsessed, lightning, veteran, all-nite, multi-state, American, remote location chaser... that's me.