My name is Jared Farrer, I am currently living in Crawfordsville, IN and have lived here for a good portion of my life.  I have been fascinated by storms all my life. I started with an insatiable appetite to learn everything I could about them. At the age of twelve I was following the work of storm chasers like Warren Faidley, Gene Rhoden, Gene Moore, Bob Prentice, Howard Bluestein. Reading there books and watching there videos. I was also an avid fan of the weather channel. I use to ride my bike to a hill up the road from my house and watch the storms come in.

I started chasing seriously in 2006, after an active spring season for Indiana. Before that it was all local stuff. September 22nd 2006 was one of my first memorable chases. I was chasing in southern IL. I had actually traveled a distance on this chase day. It was also the first chase I had forecasted in advance. I was stopping to get data at librarys and using gas station maps. I didnt own a camera until later that year, so I wasnt able to document that chase. I have been hooked ever since!