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Forensic Meteorologist | AMS Certified Consulting Meteorologist ( #771 ) | Outreach Specialist | Trivia Host |

Norman, OK

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Joined February 2016

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Pat Hyland

16 days

Notice something about this video? Calm Focused Communication Teamwork These are the dedicated folks of the National Weather Service that are tasked with the protection of life and property These are they days they’ve trained for Service over self right in front of your eyes

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720pm - Behind the scenes as we enter our 13th hour of severe weather operations. A long night ahead.

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2 years

I'm listed as a organ donor on my driver's license, but it's really exclusively for Bob Stoops

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1 year

When Willy Wonka’s Factory claims another kid

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1 year

Disheartening to see that a reliable way for folks to receive critical severe weather alerts in a timely manner is being limited 😔

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2 years

#wxtwitter with each NAM run as the snow totals go higher and higher

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9 months

Another incredible job by the folks at the National Hurricane Center and all of the local NWS offices and partners that have been providing consistent and effective messaging throughout the lifecycle of #Idalia

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Textbook

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1 month

Just Imagine

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1 year

Huge day for Threats-in-Motion! For the first time ever, we were able to issue real-time experimental Taller TIM warnings where the warnings move continuously at one-minute intervals until forecaster modification! The future of more equitable warnings moves forward!

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1 year

Forecasters testing out “Taller” Threats In Motion at the Hazardous Weather Testbed - first time on a real-time event! #FACETs #ResearchToOperations #SevereWeatherResearch

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14Z Day Tornado Forecast

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1 year

Continually in awe of the awesome human beings at SPC (and all of the local NWS offices) for providing an extraordinary service to protect lives and property - all for about $3 per taxpayer 🤯 It’s amazing how far this field has come, and it’s only just getting started

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2 years

The colors from Smugglers’ Notch to Stowe and down to Waterbury are simply stunning! Fall in Vermont is the best!🍁 #Vermont #FallFoliage @FoliageReport

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1 year

Next time you give meteorologists a hard time about the forecast - a mere few feet can be the difference between nothing and everything

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Literally on the line

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4 years

The life of a meteorologist

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2 months

A collection of Storm Prediction Center outlooks resembling animals 🦖🦈🐳🐟🐕

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3 years

Saving these for posteriority (2/10/2021)

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2 years

@davidfrum Here we go again...

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2 years

60-70mph winds and driving rain in North Norman/12th and Tecumseh (8:25 Central) #okwx @NWSNorman

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1 year

Forecasting complex winter weather events is really tough! Be nice to your weather people! #okwx (h/t @ltmarts and @ounwcm )

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8 months

Someone please photograph her with a weather radio

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Travis Kelce jerseys saw a nearly 400% spike in sales after Taylor Swift attended his game, TMZ reports.

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3 months

Storm Spotter Training Session at the National Weather Center tonight 🌪️

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8 months

Storms move - shouldn’t warnings move with them? Stop by our #NWAS23 Showcase this morning (Monday, September 11 10:30am-12pm Central) for a hands-on demonstration of the future of severe weather warnings that follow the storm with a continuous flow of info: Threats-in-Motion

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2 years

Do yourself a favor and drive the Vermont Route 100 - peak colors have arrived!🍁 #Vermont #Foliage #vtwx #FallFoliage @FoliageReport

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2 years

We tried to tell her…

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7 days

Special 21Z sounding from NWS Norman #okwx

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3 months

The future of convective warnings that follow the hazard and provide a continuous flow of information and more equitable lead times is getting closer and closer to operations! #AMS2024

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3 months

The future of convective warnings is coming, as Threats-in-Motion is slowly advancing toward @NWS operations. With the help of NWS personnel and core partners, we continue to improve TIM's concepts, software and dissemination capabilities. #AMS2024

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2 years

Severe Path of Totality

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11 months

Here’s an animation of the microburst that impacted Max Westheimer airport that led to the 84mph wind gust from the @okmesonet station located there #okwx

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17 days

Special balloon launch from NWS Norman is up and away #okwx

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1 year

Wanted to screenshot this because I can't recall if I've ever seen this before: A Winter Weather MD (Blizzard), an MD for a potential PDS Tornado Watch Issuance, and two distinct areas that will likely be upgraded to a tornado-driven High Risk WOW - Stay safe, and thank you SPC

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3 years

Things I didn’t expect to see today: The official NWS account responding to Wendy’s

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2 years

Texas is no longer bowl eligible - it’s a beautiful thing

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5 months

Too easy 😉 @NWSSPC @UofOklahoma

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3 months

They consulted with meteorologists and still had the characters shelter under an overpass

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1 year

Shoutout to the women of SPC as the first line of defense for severe weather this afternoon! @WxLiz @_EmilyThornton_

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4 months

Could watch this on loop forever

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3 months

New album cover just dropped: “The Tortured Meteorologists Department”

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1 year

This storm west of @NWCNorman is stunning #okwx

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4 months

You can see the exact moment when the earthquake occurred (5:36 AM CST) on radar #okwx

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4 years

Must be nice to get paid and be wrong all the time

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2 years

It’s almost as if Leigh Orf’s simulations of tornadic supercells came to life

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Reed Timmer, PhD

2 years

Dominator Drone footage of destructive #tornado in Andover KS

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10 months

Today was my very last tour of the @NWCNorman 17 years of showcasing a truly one-of-a-kind facility to hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world Such an honor to tell the story of the same building that brought me to Norman to begin my career as a meteorologist

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This is potentially 100+ miles of destruction - wow

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3 months

Satellite view of the frontal passage and the resulting shift in the wildfires in the Texas panhandle and western Oklahoma #okwx #txwx

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2 years

Hail so massive that the signal from the Little Rock radar was attenuated…at S-band 😳

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3 years

Hail Fashioned 🥃

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Pat Hyland

5 years

Here’s @ZooAmpOKC ’s explanation (and my response) regarding their “wait and see” policy for event safety. You need a plan. We were under a severe thunderstorm warning. Can’t just hope that things will be okay. Also, we’re right way more than 10% of the time, thanks. #okwx

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1 year

It feels like we’re signing each other’s yearbooks before we go to different schools

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1 year

7:21PM looking west from the NWC Observation Deck #okwx @NWSNorman

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5 months

The Golden Chonk

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NWS Atlanta

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Wowza, look at that occlusion (purple)! What a heckin chonker! #uswx

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1 month

The skies in Broken Bow, Oklahoma cleared just in time! One of the most incredible experiences of my life! #Eclipse2024 #okwx

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Pat Hyland

10 months

And with that, my tenure at the University of Oklahoma is complete! Beyond ecstatic to announce that starting Monday, I’ll be taking my talents to Haag Engineering as a Forensic Meteorologist! So excited to work with an incredibly talented team of engineers and meteorologists!

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3 years

Rounded up the culprits from last night. Their next stop is probably an Old Fashioned 🥃 #okwx

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3 years

Fantastic collaboration between @NWSPueblo , @NWSAlbuquerque , and @NWSAmarillo in the issuance of three separate tornado warnings that effectively covers the threat over three different county warning areas (CWAs) #cowx #txwx #nmwx

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4 years

Do you believe in the science of climate change? The question should be: Do you understand the science of climate change?

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1 year

Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Ilsa 🌀 made landfall near Port Hedland, Australia after undergoing rapid intensification. According to the Bureau of Meteorology (Western Australia), Ilsa set a new preliminary Australian ten-minute sustained wind speed record of 218km/h

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A solar eclipse and an aurora in Oklahoma in the span of a month - amazing! #okwx

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3 months

Check out the birds getting spooked and leaving their roosts when the #okquake happens (around 11:25pm). Getting out ahead of the storms too! #okwx

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2 years

That is an impressive shelf cloud #okwx

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1 year

Golden State Ratio #cawx

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1 year

It’s happening🌪️

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4 years

I never realized how big those chaser dots really were!

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1 year

Incredible flash flooding occurring in Fort Lauderdale, FL as a storm is parked right over the area and not moving. MRMS Recurrence Interval is maxing out the scale (200+year recurrence interval)

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2 months

A visual of all the severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings issued by NWS Forecast offices from yesterday’s severe weather - 408 in total First image: All 408 warnings Following images: Cropped into more manageable sizes Thank you to those who protect lives and property!

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3 days

Scrolling Twitter this morning

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3 years

The Binghamton radar (KBGM) hasn’t stopped partying since Wednesday 🆘 #nywx

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1 year

A recap of NWS Los Angeles’ Day: Blizzard Warning Winter Storm Warning Tornado Warning High Wind Warning Flash Flood Warning Gale Warning Who said the LA area never gets any weather?

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8 months

It’s a beaut, Clark #okwx

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1 year

Left: Tornado from WDSU's Tower Camera (12/14/2022) Right: Tornado from WDSU's Tower Camera (03/22/2022)

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5 years

Some exciting news! I have accepted a Research Associate position with @OUCIMMS and @NOAANSSL , starting on August 19! I’ll be working on developing/testing algorithms for short-term probabilistic prediction to assist in warning-decision making. Excited to get back to my roots!

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1 year

Have to update my last tweet because - NWS San Diego just issued their FIRST EVER Blizzard Warning!

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2 years

Images showing the Severe Hail Index and Maximum Expected Hail Size from the Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor (MRMS) System There was some decent hail in the eyewall - likely what the #HurricaneHunters encountered. Hail in hurricanes is rare but possible with strong updrafts🌀

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1 year

A supercell that trekked almost 200 miles (border-to-border) producing cyclic catastrophic and destructive tornadoes across Mississippi. Unreal.

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1 year

Taller TiM automatically translates warnings at one-minute increments between forecaster decisions, providing greater lead-time equitability. Concerns remain about dissemination and forecasters getting bogged down constantly nudging warnings and focusing on storm tracks #AMS2023

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8 days

18Z balloon launch from NWS Norman has taken flight 🎈 Data should be available soon to assess the environment near central Oklahoma

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3 years

I love seeing weather preparedness in action! #txwx

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3 years

Y’all - I love this place 😍 @OU_Football

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2 years

Ugh, this is such a gut punch 😔 I realized that I gave a tour of the National Weather Center to Gavin back in July 2019 when he was considering schools to attend to pursue meteorology and ultimately chose the OU School of Meteorology. So heartbreaking ❤️‍🩹

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1 month

Special 19Z sounding from NWS Norman The cap is hanging on by a thread. Once that goes, there could be some pretty explosive storm growth in central Oklahoma #okwx

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1 month

What did y’all do?

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7 months

Texas is back…to losing to OU #BoomerSooner

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Pat Hyland

3 years

I'm ecstatic to announce that I'm the newest @ametsoc Certified Consulting Meteorologist (CCM) ( #771 )! I'm so excited to join this prestigious group! It was a rigorous and intense process (and during a global pandemic!), but it was so rewarding, and I can't wait for what's next!

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Unfortunately, yesterday (May 6, 2024) was not the first time that Barnsdall has been impacted by an EF-4 tornado On April 12, 1911, an F4 tornado went through Bigheart (now known as Barnsdall) 📷 by William J. Boag (Scotty Howard & Carl Graham Collection, @okhistory ) #okwx

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3 years

Pretty spectacular sunset this evening in #OKC @VisitOKC @OKCStreetcar @ElkValleyBrew

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7 months

How it started… How it’s going (24hrs later)… #Otis

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2 years

This image of hail damage to the #HurricaneHunters aircraft is destined to be on display at @53rdWRS HQ "One of the worst ever" 🌀

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Dave Malkoff

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Crazy #HurricaneHunt ! Our @USAFReserve 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron just landed. We hit hail, massive turbulence in the eye wall that dropped us 1000+ feet and saw #hurricaneIan rapidly intensity. It was NOT even calm inside the eye. ✈️➡️ Biloxi ➡️ Florida 🌊 ➡️ 🌀↩️

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5 months

This Ohio Moonwalker shirt is amazing! @nathanwpyle I grew up in Cleveland and my grandpa worked at NASA building parts for the Saturn V that took astronauts to the moon. His love of science inspired me to become a meteorologist to study the skies above g r a t i t u d e 🌕

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16 days

Well, that got the blood flowing Everyone is okay here

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3 months

The difference a gap-filling radar provides to the Durant, OK area #okwx

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2 years

It's been over nine years since Kentucky last had Tornado Emergencies issued by local NWS offices Tonight, so far, six Tornado Emergencies have been issued

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IEM :: Tornado + Flash Flood Emergencies Listing

Iowa Environmental Mesonet of Iowa State University

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2 years

Looks like the Idabel, OK Mesonet site may have had a close call with the tornado in that area. You can see the large increase in wind speed (wind gust) and a drop in temperature and pressure

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1 year

Look how close the tornado was to the National Weather Center! 😬

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NWS Norman

1 year

Here is the preliminary information and mapping of Sunday's #EF2 #Goldsby - #Norman #tornado . #okwx

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3 days

Aurora visible from Norman, Oklahoma! #okwx

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3 years

My goodness! Check out this sunset in DC! Incredible! #InaugurationDay #Inauguration #DCwx

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4 years

Tom Herman uses telecasts, pictures, descriptions, and accounts of the game without the express written consent of the NCAA

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4 years

This anvil lightning is insane! #okwx #lightning

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1 year

Got an email from an undergraduate atmospheric sciences student: “Interview someone with your dream career” Y’all, I’m about to cry 🥺 You never know the impact you’ll have on people

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