Steve Piltz @SPiltz Twitter profile

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4 months

Barnsdall rating at EF4. w/ @EdCaly5 @Darby2247 @kelicain

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3 months

Tornado damage east of Claremore, OK. w/ ⁦ @EdCaly5 ⁩

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8 years

Seismogram of the OK earthquake.

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3 years

Sentinel-2 before and after images of Mayfield, KY...

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4 months

Barnsdall, OK. w/ @EdCaly5 @Darby2247 @kelicain

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5 years

Lots of folks at @NWStulsa doing great things around me the last few weeks... cancelling vacation time... being impacted by a tornado and coming into work that day... juggling day care to match changing work hours...issuing the warning then doing the damage surveys.

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10 years

“ @ABC : "My neighborhood in West Seneca, NY, looks like an underground mole colony" - MORE: http://t.co/EdeBa0JLZn http://t.co/vcM0FWSHug”

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4 years

Seismogram from the OK earthquake this evening...

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4 months

Power flash from the May 3rd, 1999 tornado in the west Tulsa metro area. The KINX radar was down, so I went out to track it into Tulsa. My reports went to @NWStulsa by amateur radio (Merlin Griffin - net control). The best picture I never took was the lifting funnel over the

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6 months

Radar sequence of the anticyclonic supercell north of Tulsa ...

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3 years

Why you stay away from outside walls during a tornado. w/ @EdCaly5

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11 months

Eclipse. Broken Arrow, OK.

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3 years

Don't see these colors on the Chiclet Page often...

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3 months

Tornado damage northwest of Decatur, AR. w/ ⁦ @EdCaly5 ⁩

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7 years

Wellington TX supercell. W/ @maribluemom

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2 years

just moved off Big Pine Key...

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6 years

It does not get spoken enough, emergency managers are great people. #thanks

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3 years

Tornado Threat based on SPC probabilities...

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2 years

Tornado damage just east of Pickens, OK. With @EdCaly5

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5 years

Over Fort Smith with @jamesaydelott the pilot in command.

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6 months

Crew Dragon Endurance over northeast Oklahoma.

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9 years

A walk-off and he ducked the cold water. #moss #stlcards http://t.co/PUu2cz48g0

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4 years

Looking west from ⁦ @NWStulsa ⁩

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3 years

One Winter Storm Warning from Maine to far SW Texas...

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4 months

10am surface conditions...

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5 years

Somebody ripped the cloud over Tulsa.

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7 years

This is what Highway 169 in Tulsa looked like on Feb 3rd, 2011. Took this on the way home after living in the office for a couple of days.

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5 years

Ship traffic and Dorian...

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3 years

NWS WFO Ice Forecast...

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4 months

Planetary K Index 9

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8 months

Not as much fun as a flame thrower, but still fun.

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5 years

Big numbers...

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2 months

Now looking through some Barnsdall data. This is how mesoscale/storm-scale forecast data can be used in social media. The black line is the Barnsdall - Bartlesville tornado (9:12pm to 10:07pm). #MuskogeeStateCollege

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2 years

Tornado damage in Green Forest, AR. w/ @JANOWX

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4 years

As fake as fake gets...

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5 years

GFS next Saturday...

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5 years

. @EdCaly5 has closed the book on the tornadoes. 61 in the @NWStulsa area since April 30th... 48 in 9 days from May 18th to May 26th. This page is still under development... but it has a lot of info...

2019: Tornado Events in Eastern Oklahoma and Northwest Arkansas

This is a summary of the tornadoes that occurred in 2019 in the NWS Tulsa area of responsibility, which includes eastern Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas.

noaa.maps.arcgis.com

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5 years

"Shock" waves moving out from the previous big instability release.

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5 years

Here is a map of all the tornado warnings issued by @NWStulsa so far in 2019. The "hotter" the color, the more times that point on the map was in a tornado warning polygon.

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4 years

first run of a local model at home... forecast snowfall looks as accurate as can be... 12Z Sat to 12Z Sun...

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1 year

Simulated supercell from underneath, looking up. Meso lower left. Helical inflow in higher reflectivity. Surface pressure shown with very thin lines (zoom) .

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2 years

North Broken Arrow #okwx

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9 months

Radar rotation data thru 5pm... Hendersonville, TN...

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4 years

Step one on a potential hail day, drive spouses car to work.

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9 months

@NWSNorman The OUN Christmas Sonde is down just south of Guthrie. The perfect last minute present for someone.

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3 years

Latest tornado threat information based on updated SPC numbers...

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3 years

impressive storm digging south across Oklahoma... COD image...

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4 months

18Z HRRR Valid 7pm Monday...

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9 months

Radar rotation data thru 6pm CDT near Nashville...

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4 years

Flash of apparent meteor captured by GOES Lightning Mapper over NW Oklahoma... (COD image)...

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3 years

dangerous fire weather conditions spreading east behind the dry line...

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5 months

dry line

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1 year

First contact with GOES East , trash can and mower for esthetics.

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7 years

Seismograph trace from earthquake felt in Oklahoma just coming in.

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4 months

Strong tornadoes, damaging winds, and very large hail possible for locations in the outlooked areas... especially in the Enhanced, Moderate, and High Risk areas.

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5 years

. @pmarshwx in action...

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3 years

GFS for early next week... back to Spring...

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3 years

. @okmesonet surface pressure traces for Hollis, Norman, and Tulsa crudely overlaid. Could be the Tonga pressure wave at the blue arrow...

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2 years

Storm day extras for work.

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3 years

OKIE 31 and SNTRY 30 today …

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5 years

Fun with pencils.

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5 years

Lots of interactions the past couple days between media, chasers, spotters, emergency managers and responders, state officials, FEMA, DOTs, and weather folks. In all the situations I have seen they were all pulling on the rope together. #manythanks

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1 year

Multiple power flashes approaching my house in north Broken Arrow. Power is out in most of the Tulsa metro area. Winds of 90 to 100 mph reported at some locations. Widespread 60 to 80 mph winds.

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5 years

Just a few hours away from having the Arkansas River at Tulsa... Muskogee... Van Buren... and Ozark in major flood status at the same time.

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2 months

The @Jeff_Piotrowski Cyber Chase Truck has arrived, along with the Red Cross, BAPD… Oak Grove FD and @NWStulsa , at the BA Cinemark safety event that is underway with the showing of Twisters. 11am to 3pm today.

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4 years

. @zachstanford @dpiltz6 and I were texting about heat-bursts all evening... waiting and watching. We used the 00Z Norman sounding to sketch out the concept (the temp values were just an illustration and not a forecast attempt)...

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4 years

That is an impressive Winter Storm Warning.

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5 years

Storm tops a bit ago northeast of Tulsa.

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4 years

5” North Broken Arrow. #okwx

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5 months

Max at Tulsa. #Eclipse2024

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4 months

Being 24 hours out details will change some. All of E Oklahoma and NW Arkansas will have severe weather potential into Monday night, but not all areas will see storms. The area along I-44 and north to the Kansas border in NE Oklahoma appears to have some of the highest

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4 years

Shelf cloud. Looking NW from @NWStulsa

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4 years

Red and Black Chiclets in April are never good.

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2 years

At the OK Emergency Management Association Conference, @jamesaydelott explains his research on pineapple and pizza....

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3 years

Pretty sure I just got a picture of a Romulan Bird of Prey going into warp.

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3 years

Don't see this color everyday either...

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2 years

Tulsa ….

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1 year

Tulsa lightning

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5 years

Winter: snow before Halloween, a blizzard will be seen. #teamsnow

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2 years

. @EdCaly5 hand-clearing roads to survey tornado damage on a ridge line.

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2 years

some initial plots of @okmesonet data from Pryor, OK and KINX data during the 02 Jan 2023 tornado.. thanks @okmesonet folks for the data

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5 years

Add another tornado record ... 41 tornadoes in the @NWStulsa service area during 7 days (5/20 - 5/26). Previous record was 35 from May in 2010.

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4 years

Best I could do. Que real photographers.

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2 years

Lowering with QLCS circulation over Tulsa. Looking west from @NWStulsa .

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4 years

I see the heat-burst watch verified.

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2 months

Working on data from the Claremore tornado night. May just start putting the Muskogee State College logo on these graphics. The graphic shows real data from the night with the zone of the forecast most favorable environment in light purple... issued at 9:56 pm and valid til

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1 month

Inside car after parked at work in Tulsa all day.

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6 years

. @NWStulsa is just as cool as @NWSNorman ... Thanks to @jamesaydelott #wegottaglobetoo

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4 years

fairly thick layer of smoke aloft over the central US...

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4 years

the ground in Tulsa continues to vibrate at 11am CDT because of the earthquake in Mexico..

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6 years

We have to make rapidly updating threat probabilities a real thing. We can't just say our meteorology is better, while using decades old methods to set situational awareness levels to support decisions.

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3 years

Doing science with @EdCaly5 in Delaware Co #okwx .

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4 months

Tornado damage at the edge of a mountain near the Washington Co / Madison Co line southwest of Crosses, AR. w/ @EdCaly5 @mep5555

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2 years

I think I might apply to OSU to be a crash dummy for rideable drones.

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5 years

Right before the earthquake interrupted the @NWStulsa webinar with federal, state, and local officials concerning the coming tornado, flood, and severe storm potential. w/ @maribluemom

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6 years

when the road runs out and the archived radar data indicates you have to get a little further down the road... @EdCaly5 charges forward

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4 years

GFS for Wednesday evening...

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5 years

radar rotation tracks from yesterday (5/22/19) ... through 9:10pm ...

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8 years

Microbarometer trace in Broken Arrow OK of the earthquake.

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4 years

High-end instability... wind shear... boundaries and a CAP. All the ingredients for a interesting day... a day to drive the spouse's car to work again.

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