ClicheVortex2014

I became interested in the process of severe weather forecasting in the days leading up to the March 2, 2012 tornado outbreak. I was at school on that afternoon, in Blue Ash, when a tornado warning went off and there seemed to be a deadly tornado (the violent Evansville supercell) heading right for me. Thankfully, it ended up going 30 miles to my south and unfortunately killed 3 more people in Moscow, OH.

After that, I changed my major to Meteorology, and in my spare time, I started researching why most of Southwest Ohio was spared by that outbreak. I quickly realized that I need to learn quite a lot in order to understand. That served as a building block, and from researching terms that I didn't understand, I eventually got my answers.

From that point, I started reading case studies about previous tornado outbreaks... most specifically, the 1974 Super Outbreak. Again, I had to Google the terms I didn't understand. Since 2013, I've been reading technical severe weather discussions on a daily basis. In the summer, I started using computer models in order to see what the SPC was seeing. In 2014, I bought a Synoptic/Mesoscale Meteorology textbook... finished reading it in 4 months.

At this point, I'm completely self-taught. As of June 25, 2015, I'm a student at Ohio University, majoring in Meteorology.