About me

My Name is Shoen. I was born in Clearwater, Florida and I'm 21. All my life I've been facinated with the weather.

My weather history started with a tornado on October 27, 1997. A severe thunderstom moved into the tampabay area when a F0 tornado hit the high school I went to. I first saw a waterspout in 1999 but I had no camera with me, and in 2000, I finally caught My first lightning strike from my backyard of my prevoius house with a video camera.

That lightning strike made me decide to become a storm chaser. I became a Skywarn spotter on January of 2003 and became an advanced certified a month later. My decision of being a skywarn spotter came after seeing 50 MPH winds, close lightning strikes, and small hail on the evening of December 31, 2002.

I became a ham operator on Feburary 14, 2003 with my callsign KG4YMB.