User:Stratosphere

**Strato**|sphere
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Name	Strato\|sphere
Name in real life	Nick Nolte (seriously!)
Country	United States
Current location	Nebraska
Time zone	Central Time Zone
Hobbies, interests, and beliefs
Hobbies	Storm chasing, Road Tripping
Contact info
Website	www.nnwx.us
Blog	www.nnwx.us/blog
Twitter	NickNolteWx
YouTube	NickNolteWx
Account statistics
Joined	November 2, 2005
First edit	January 12, 2006
Education
Education	Bachelor of Science
University	Central Michigan University
Honors	Summa Cum Laude

Retired

This user is no longer active on Wikipedia.

Welcome

Welcome to my user page! My handle on here is Strato|sphere but my real name is Nick. I've been on Wikipedia for over 19 years! My main interests on here are articles related to the transportation networks of the United States, specifically highways in Michigan and Nebraska as well as articles related to meteorology and storm chasing.

Storm Chaser

When the weather permits, I am an avid storm chaser. I began storm chasing in 2010 when I took a 3-week vacation to the Great Plains in search of supercells and tornadoes! On my first chase day I intercepted a tornado near Wakita, Oklahoma during the May 10–13, 2010 tornado outbreak on May 10th and since then I've logged over 185,000 miles (297,729 km) and spotted 97 tornadoes! I enjoy severe weather and chasing so much I moved to Nebraska in 2016!

Memorable Chase Events

Here's a quick list of a few storm chases that I put on the top of my list as most memorable:

May 22, 2010 - saw 4 tornadoes that day including the EF-4 wedge near Bowdle.
May 24, 2010 - saw 2 tornadoes during the May 24, 2010 in South Dakota, an EF-2 tornado near Howes with a satellite rope tornado
June 5, 2010 - saw 3 tornadoes during the June 5–6, 2010 tornado outbreak including an EF-2 that hit Elmwood, Illinois
April 14, 2012 - saw 3 tornadoes on 3 separate supercells during the April 13–16, 2012 tornado outbreak in Kansas including the EF-4 north of Lyons, Kansas
May 18, 2013 - saw 2 tornadoes during the May 18-21, 2013 tornado outbreak including the EF-4 near Rozel, Kansas
May 31, 2013 - saw 2 tornadoes during the historic 2013 El Reno tornado event
November 17, 2013 - saw the EF-4 that tracked from East Peoria to Long Point, IL during the November 17, 2013 tornado outbreak
May 9, 2015 - saw 7 tornadoes during the May 9, 2015 outbreak, 5 in Colorado and 2 in Kansas
May 24, 2016 - saw 11 tornadoes on the prolific cyclic tornadic supercell near Dodge City, Kansas during the May 22–26, 2016 tornado outbreak sequence
June 6, 2018 - witnessed the amazing supercell and long track tornado at Laramie, Wyoming
May 23, 2019 - witnessed 4 tornadoes during a cyclic supercell between Lipscomb, TX and Laverne, OK

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This user has been a Wikipedian since November 2, 2005.

This user has created 612
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CMU

This user is a Chippewa.

BS

This user has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science.

This user is a former resident of the U.S. State of Michigan.

This user lives in the U.S. State of Nebraska.

This user edits articles about Nebraska Highways.

This user edits articles about Michigan State Trunkline Highways.

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For your great work (both in quality and quantity) at the maps task force, I, TwinsMetsFan, award you this barnstar. TMF ^{Let's Go Mets - Stats} 03:07, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		I, Scott5114, do hereby award Stratosphere the Tireless Contributor's Barnstar for the huge amount of work that went into propelling the Michigan highway project into uncharted levels of quality. —Scott5114 ↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 05:32, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

		The Michigan State Highways Barnstar
		For all that you do to contribute to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Michigan State Highways through maps and article creation/editing. Imzadi1979 08:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

		The Michigan State Highways Barnstar
		For expanding Brockway Mountain Drive so beautifully that it is listed as a Good Article. Imzadi1979 (talk) 17:24, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

This user has written or expanded 2 articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

This user helped promote Brockway Mountain Drive to good article status.