I stood by my car, smiling and full of joy, as my first tornado occludes. This is my first plains storm chase in Lubbock, TX and I stood there remembering all the times I told people, "I want to be a storm chaser". I grew up being known as Thomas the Instagram Weatherman and I used to give forecasts to people through dms. it was a passion from whenever I could remember. Hurricane Katrina went through when I was 5 years old, and I remember wanting to race home to watch coverage on The Weather Channel. Not long later, I was gifted the Magic Tree House book on tornadoes. It scared me to death, but I still loved weather. Fast forward to nine-year-old me watching Storm Chasers on Discovery. I learned there that people chase storms and from then on, I wanted to be just like the people on TV. In this moment, I remembered all of that and realized that this was what I was born for. I was Born to Chase.