The Official Storm Chaser Ranking Sheet

The World Organization of Licensed Official Weather Spotters (WOLOWS) is proud to annouce the creation of a official licensing system for storm chasers. To find out your license level, check the boxes below that apply to you. To register your status, send $20 and proof of accomplishment to WOLOWS. In return you will get a certificate authorizing you to perform the actions of your license level.

Check the boxes below that apply to you:

Do you have the education to be a storm chaser?

You have attended a weather conference in the last year
You receive newsletter(s) for stormchasers
You own more than six weather related books
You know how to read a Skew-T
You know how to read a Hodograph
You draw your own weather maps
You have a Bachlelors degree in a weather related field
You have a Masters degree in a weather related field
You have a Doctorate degree in a weather related field

Do you have the equipment to be a storm chaser?

You use a ham radio in your vehicle
You carry a notebook computer with you
Your notebook is hooked to a GPS for mapping
Your notebook can access the internet wirelessly
You have a TV in your vehicle
You own a weather radio
You own an SLR camera
Your camera lenses are worth more than $1000
You own a video camera
You own a digital video camera
You can change the lense on your video camera
You have a video or camera mount in your car
You have removed seats in your car to make room for all the equipment
You know what an anemometer is
You own one

Do you have the experience to be a storm chaser?

You have seen a funnel cloud
You have seen a small tornado
You have seen a 'wedge'
You have seen more than 10 tornadoes
You have seen more than 10 tornadoes in a season
You have ever travelled more than 300 miles to chase tornadoes.
You have been subscribed to WX-Chase for more than a year
You have worked on Project Vortex
You have worked with the Dopper-On-Wheels project
Your video has been been on national TV, or a TVC video
You have pictures of a sprite or a blue-jet
You have been in a hurricane
You have been struck by lightning

Do you have the contacts to be a storm chaser?

You know people at the local NWS by first name
You know local broadcast weather people by first name
Local EMS personnel call you with questions about the weather
You get unsolicited calls to sell storm pictures
You know Chuck Doswell
You know Gilbert Sebenste

Do you have the obsesive desire to be a storm chaser?

You have skipped work to go chasing.
You have skipped a family gathering to go chasing.
You have interrupted sex to go chasing
You have bought NSSL merchandise
You have a storm-chasing related sign on your vehicle
"Saving your money for a rainy day" means something entirely different to you than it does for anyone else
The credit card company has called you to check that all those pay-at-pump charges were legit
You have your own web-site dedicated to weather

Do you have the other special qualifications to be a storm chaser?

You think Allen Rosenberg is funny
You have been paid for selling weather video/stills.
Your last name is Bond, yet you prefer your drinks stirred counter-clockwise, not shaken
You know your way around Oklahoma University
You know your way around the NSSL
You have more weather photos hanging up than pictures of your family
You weat a cowboy hat
You have one or more pets named after weather terms
TWC logo is burned into your TV screen

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