When in a grocery store you forget what you came for, you call for nowcasting.
You see Rohrschach test-type faces and symbols in reflectivity returns.
You'd rather watch scud than anything on television.
You keep repairing and replacing VHS players to re-view old chaser videos.
David Hoadley's birthday is circled on your calendar as a holy day of obligated worship.
While driving through the core, you find yourself laughing and aren't sure why.
When an invisible whirlwind grabs your vehicle on a clear day, you automatically look overhead for a cloud.
When you take off your shoes at night, they are caked in four different colors of mud.
When excitedly typing a quick report, you spell things like 'torando,' 'trondao,' 'trandono' etc.
When F3 no longer refers to your sixth grade report card.
When you drop off your rental car with an apology note in the middle of the night.
When hydroplaning on a blacktop highway is actually an improvement in safety, traction and handling over recently traveled unimproved farm roads.
When you chase in the Deep South and are parked on the side of the road with cameras, you are still mannerly to the thirty-fourth motorist who pulls over and says "Do you need help? There's a tornado coming!"
Sitting at a baseball game, you get smacked by a foul ball because you were staring at the CB off to the north of the stadium.
You install a micro-Doppler system on your shower curtain rod to measure toilet vortices.
When you've spent twenty-six consecutive nights in motels without a single reservation.
