You know you're a storm chaser when...

[Keith Mullen]

You visit NOAA, SPC, and other websites more than 20 times a day… in January.

Your family tries to initiate a “drug intervention†after overhearing your private phone conversation about “GFS, NAM, MLCAPE, dryline and MCS-OF N of KOUN…†and assuming it was secret-code.

“Overshooting Topâ€, “Rear Flankâ€, and “Moist Tongue†gets you excited in ways that are acceptable in public.

 

[Benjamin Rock]

You hear the weekly Wednesday test of the EAS and jump out of a complete, sound sleep and grab your pants, keys, radio, and jacket before the test message is given... Yeah, it happened...

 

[Damon Poole]

When you hear the word touchdown...and it actually means something other than a football player entering the end zone. And...When the word interception means something other than a football pass.

 

[Randall Marable]

When you are stuck at your job, you call your spouse or girlfriend (boyfriend) at home and try to talk them into grabbing the digital camera and go outside and take pictures of those distant supercells or line of severe thunderstorms.

 

[Randall Marable]

Your adrenaline begins to flow and you start getting a few goose bumbs after reading SPC 4-8 Convective Outlooks like this one...

DAY 4-8 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0328 AM CDT MON APR 13 2009

VALID 161200Z - 211200Z

...DISCUSSION...

LATEST MODEL GUIDANCE CONTINUES TO SUGGEST HEIGHTS WILL FALL OVER
THE SRN ROCKIES/HIGH PLAINS AS UPPER LOW SETTLES INTO THE 4-CORNERS
REGION THURSDAY. THIS FEATURE SHOULD THEN SLOW ITS EWD PROGRESSION
INTO THE HIGH PLAINS DUE TO DOWNSTREAM RIDGE THAT IS ANCHORED NEAR
THE MS VALLEY. STRONGER FLOW WILL EVENTUALLY OVERSPREAD A GRADUALLY
MOISTENING BOUNDARY LAYER ACROSS THE SRN HIGH PLAINS AND THIS SHOULD
RESULT IN A MULTI-DAY CONVECTIVE EVENT ACROSS MUCH OF TX/OK/KS/NEB.
WITH DEEP CONVECTION EXPECTED TO INTERCEPT THE GREATEST INSTABILITY
ACROSS TX/OK SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREAT MAY BE LIMITED FARTHER
NORTH...DESPITE CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL WITHIN OTHERWISE FAVORABLE
ENVIRONMENT FOR ORGANIZED SEVERE STORMS. GIVEN THE EXPECTED SLOW
MOVEMENT OF UPPER SYSTEM NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORM CLUSTERS AND MCS/S
SHOULD EVOLVE DURING THE DAY4-5 TIME FRAME.

 

[Paul Knightley]

...when you spend quite a lot of cash flying across the Atlantic for 2 weeks' worth of 'searching out bad weather' (as non-chase friends/family call it!).

 

[Brian Press]

when you get buddie passes from your friend for $70 round trip from LA.

 

[Larry J. Kosch]

...when you take a shower and you see your shampoo suds circle the drain counter clock wise.
...when you drive thru the blow dryer at a car wash, you pretend you are driving thru the RFD of a supercell you are chasing.
...when my dog Bear-Bear relaxes after a storm passing thru. I'm still stuck to the ceiling and trying to head out the door to chase the damn storm!! LJK.

 

[Keith Mullen]

...In public, people ask you “are you ok?â€￾ because you’ve been staring upward into the sky ...and haven’t moved in a pretty long time.

...Your co-workers and associates now rely on you more than on Jim Cantore.

...That $12,000 house in the middle of "Nowhere" in Kansas looks like a great Summer Home.

 

[Steven Marshall]

... you get excited when you see an ad for a car dealer having a "hail sale"...pre-dented new cars! Is this a great country or what???

 

[Dennis Sherrod]

I have been looking at that lately too.

 

[Melissa Jablonski]

Gee, guys are we gonna have a bidding war on that little fixer-upper?
Melissa

 

[Keith Mullen]

Depends...

Well the bidding war depends on whether we are talking about the one in Hutchinson, Emporia, or Ottawa....

ALL over 1500 square feet - ALL under $20,000

Mortage payments of about 70 bucks a month....



I think I can swing that.

*Putting my fists up* "Back off!!! I saw it first!!!"

 

[Dennis Sherrod]

I got dibs on the one in Montezuma. $23,000 w/ 4 acres.

 

[Jason Foster]

Thought about doing that (house purchase in the Plains) years ago, and the more I looked the more I said no thanks. $50,000 gets you something you want, but that should be a whole other thread.

Anyhow....to add to the thread topic:

You know you're a (old skool) chaser when:

You get sick of all attention and stop admitting your a chaser.