Most storm chasers use Radarscope, some use it for solely on the chase and others use it to supplement other programs such GRLevel3. Storm Spotting as it is officially called with the National Weather Service is important I think for everyone to have some education even if you don’t want to know the advanced level. At the advance side so you can storm chase too. I wanted to share the tools so at the very basic level you can be educated on storms. When I realize what the general public sees as well as what I saw growing up and now what I see. I’m a “noob” as people call themselves in the chasing community. I’ve been chasing now for 3 years, each storm and year learning more and more. I found chasers are everywhere, hundreds if not thousands of us across the world. It occurred to me that I could learn the skills and save a lot of money and chase myself or with other chasers. It wasn’t 2013 while watching “Storm Chasers” on Discovery channel that it occurred that other people liked to chase after storms and paid $2,500 for a week trip on Extreme Tornado Tours on the Great Plains. I couldn’t tell you the difference between a shelf and wall cloud for many years but it was just awe-inspiring to watch the sky turn almost black where I lived in Ohio for an approaching supercell. Throughout all the years I would get in the car with a camera and follow the red square for any Tornado warned storm, having no clue what I was looking for beyond something interesting I could photograph at the great holy grail, a tornado. I was often scolded by my mom for being outside when storms were approaching as I watched. I have always been interested in weather, even at 8 years old I was a kid amateur meteorologist for a local TV station in Ohio and reported the weather of that day to them for my little town. Storm chasing, when most sane people go indoors and anxiously look at the tv or radar on the phone, us storm chasers will drive thousands of miles in hopes of seeing a tornado.
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