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Certified Broadcast Meteorologist - Fox San Antonio

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4 years
BREAKING: Large Chemical leak from a plant in Lake Charles flowing over I-10, extremely dangerous situation. #hurricanelaura
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Happy New Year in San Antonio, Texas.
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The world record for largest gas station is Buc-ee’s in New Braunfels, Texas with 120 gas pumps, 1000 parking spots and a 68,000 foot store.
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An island in the sky. Oklahoma City standing above the fog.
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Large tornado in Richmond Virginia, around 4 PM ET image via Pat Strepka
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Monster-sized hail returned to south Texas last night, this time to San Antonio.
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Tornado in Greensboro, Alabama around 11 am central time.
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An intense microburst slamed Oklahoma City Thursday evening, winds were up to 80 mph.
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Wait for it, this is The @SATXPolice nice work!
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Worse than Hurricane Hugo, Category 5 #Maria will slam the most highly populated part of #PuertoRico tonight
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I-10 hasn't moved in 12 hours. Bad for truckers, but those in cars have likely had an even more miserable night in single-digit windchill. This backup is miles long near Kerrville, TX.
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Check out this awesome footage of the sun rotating. This was recorded from the new GOES 16 weather satellite. It takes the sun 27.5 days to complete a full rotation.
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The moment the bridge collapsed in Kingsland, TX along the flooded Llano river.
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Not a normal sight on your morning commute in San Antonio. 🎥 Alexis Torres
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They were hit directly by this tornado in San Antonio near the Frost Bank Center.
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A man dressed as Michael Myers carrying a knife was arrested on the beach during tropical storm #Nicholas
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Today was day 56 is San Antonio with 100 degrees for the year…this time last year ZERO!
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The OKC Thunder was on board this plane last night. The damage to plane is believed to be from a bird strike.
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It is an Oklahoma Panhandle Blizzard. April 30, 2017, Boise City Oklahoma. Two feet of snow, & deeper drifts. Thanks to Kathy Brannum
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Do you see the quarter?! About the biggest hail can get! In Hondo, Texas from Lino Ramirez
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The #supermoon as a Christmas tree topper, the best! Nice job in Chickasha Oklahoma.
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Serious tornado damage from a hurricane spawned tornado in Bertie County, NC
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Evacuations are occurring along The Llano River in south-central Texas it’s near record level. Currently at 39 feet the record is 41 feet in 1935.
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The tornado is literally on the other side of the roadway. San Antonio, Texas
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San Antonio tornado from crystal jones. @NWS
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100 degrees 3 days before this in Casper, Wyoming! Snow is making driving terrible.
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An X level (Major) solar flare occurred at 3:32 a.m. CT this morning, 5 minutes later reports of mobile data outages started coming in to Downdetector.
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Ice storm in San Antonio is pulling down fences at Top Golf. More than 70,000 customers without power in Texas most in Sa.
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20 years ago today, May 3, 1999, the highest wind speed on earth ever observed, over 300 mph in the F5 tornado in Moore, Oklahoma.
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Impressive volcano #lightning , look closely in the cloud. Intense friction from ash and other lava elements create the lightning in this cloud. #Kilauea volcano in #Hawaii , Video from July 16, 2018.
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Tornado damage along Hwy 14 near Sawyerville, AL from Kim McCrory @spann
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Beautiful in San Antonio Texas, from snap_magic
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San Antonio tornado this morning. Damage in Terrell Hills.
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James Spann sighs on-air while tracking a major tornado as he realizes his house was just hit in central Alabama. He is not missing a beat still tracking a major outbreak. Prayers for those being affected by this storm. #alwx
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7 years
Some of the biggest hail I have ever seen. Perkins Oklahoma, official report so far is 4.5" This image from Wayne Grider.
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On this date 17 years ago 60 tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma. Largest was F5 in Moore. #okwx #May3
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As you burn your Kawhi Leonard Jersey today, careful not to start a wildfire, there is a drought in #San Antonio and the wildfire danger is elevated.
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A noisy night in Oklahoma and Texas, but pretty. Thanks to Cara Miller who shot this over Tom Steed Lake.
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Incredible #meteor in the Midwest very early this morning.
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Irony in the middle of this picture. A disastrous ice storm in Shattuck, Oklahoma. Image credit to Mendy Trosper.
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Incredible lightning video in Oklahoma City. Lightning shooting up from the TV and radio towers. Thanks to Wendy Barton.
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Perfect weather for an Air Force Thunderbird. This picture in Oklahoma City from Friday from a @koconews viewer.
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The northern lights in San Antonio, TX
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A massive distant Oklahoma storm, quite stunning. Thanks to a loyal KOCO viewer for the picture.
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2” hail at The Rim in San Antonio.
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Mile wide tornado just NW of Greensboro, Alabama. At 4:36PM
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Beautiful Port Aransas Texas, all before what will likely be Hurricane Hanna that makes landfall tomorrow.
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Ice storm picture in Putnam, Oklahoma from Meshell Hunter.
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The water at Leon Creek has risen more than 10 feet in the last hour. This is in San Antonio after up to nine inches of rain. @NWSSanAntonio
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18 hours of Dorian’s eye, watch how the storm slows it’s forward speed, the spin of the eye isn’t as fast, and it looks more ragged at the end like a tire losing its tread. Max wind goes from 185-155 mph in this sequence. #Dorian
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An impressive explosion was seen from the summit of #Kilauea on Wednesday. Rocks falling into the lava lake now 970 feet down created this eruption of ash and rocks. Image via USGS.
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How about this view in Moore Oklahoma from Josh Watts!?
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I'm thankful for the light winds in NE Oklahoma City. Winds make an ice storm much worse.
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A beautiful evening at The Pearl in San Antonio.
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Sunset in Oklahoma, with a tornado right in the middle. Amazing shot from Chris Lee. #okwx #woodward
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How would you like to shovel this!? Two-day snowfall total of 62 inches of snow in Redfield New York, and it's still snowing!
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Another view of the large #Tornado in #Marshalltown Iowa. July 19, 2018 Video credit @btlinberg
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Storms do not get more amazing than this. Volunteer firefighter Jeremy Pendergraft took this in SW Oklahoma. #okwx
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The dust from Africa is making sunrise and sunset shots amazing.
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The deepest snow in years has buried Boise City Oklahoma. Crazy to see on April 30. Picture from Kathy Brannum. #okwx #snow
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Near Hondo, Texas from last night
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Storm surge flooding in Corpus Christi from hurricane Hanna.
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A lonely, but beautiful Oklahoma rain shower. This sent to me from Sheila. #okwx #beautiful
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The movie Twister came out 22 years ago today. Twister was also the first movie ever released on DVD!
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Check out what it looks like in Kenton Oklahoma on this April 29. Thanks to Cerita Walker for the picture.
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THERE IS A POWER CRISIS IN TEXAS: 2.3 million customers are without power with rolling power outages. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) says there isn't enough power to keep up with demand in this record cold!
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Big storm rolling into San Antonio on this July, I 4 got the drone up before the heavy rain started. #SanAntonio
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A recent storm from the Alamo.
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Whoa, the dam at Marble Falls just looks like a rapid. Massive flooding west of Austin. via @toddinsports
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America's largest animal crossing (land bridge) is now complete in San Antonio. It connects Phil Hardberger Park over Wurzbach Pkwy.
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Thick ice in Woodward, Oklahoma. Picture taken by Lacey Brown.
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First snow in San Antonio in two years. Picture from Ryan.
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What a shot of three landspout tornadoes from Tuesday evening near OKC, Thanks to Heather McKune
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An awesome solar halo over the Oklahoma plains. Thanks to a loyal viewer. #sunset #halo
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How the heck do you put this out!? This oil fire is in La Porte, Texas bear Houston.
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Yumm, Birthday cookie extended forecast, very tasty thanks work friends!
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It is pouring snow in Oklahoma City. OKC hasn’t recorded and inch of snow this early in the season in 27 years. #okwx
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Violet tornado through Marshalltown Iowa, prayers for the people in this community. Video Benjamin Fuller. #Marshalltown #Tornado
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It’s Groundhogs day! Phil sees no shadow, an early spring is his forecast.
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The beautiful Frio River in Concan, TX 📸Gregory Deimel
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Hello San Antonio! @KABBFOX29
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A violent tornado near Paris, Texas. Worst tornado outbreak in months.
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Pray for people in Lamar County (TX). Tornado hit small town of Powderly earlier. People are trapped, some feared to be dead. God bless ‘em. 🙏
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It is snowing at 9,000 feet at Jackson Hole Ski Resort, up to 8 inches of snow is expected today. #snow #summersnow
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A Snowy Owl from Canada showed up in Oklahoma City. This was at the airport. Maybe a sign that the real cold is coming!?
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Beautiful lighting on this roll cloud in southwest Oklahoma. Image from a KOCO 5 News viewer.
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Wow....San Antonio...that is a heck of a lot of fireworks. #NewYearsDay #NewYearsEve #Fireworks from Brittany Perkins
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What a shot from last night's storm, Gary Henry said if you look close you can see a lightning induced inverted rainbow, west of OKC.
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An explosion from a meteor was heard in Mcallen, Texas Wednesday evening.
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You can hear the meteorite explosion #Mcallen #Mission
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Beautiful, but not for the more than 15,000 customers that are still out of power in Oklahoma. This in Reydon, picture by Travis T. Hickey.
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A recent lightning strike in Oklahoma City, thanks to a loyal viewer for this.
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Now it all makes sense! #Texas
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Flooding along Cibolo Creek north of San Antonio.
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This Tulsa tornado from Saturday night was rated as an EF-2. For Oklahoma this is unusually strong for this time of year.
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This sunrise shadow is created from thunderstorms some 450 miles away.
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A beautiful recent sunset in south Texas.
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Look how the cost of 16 terabytes of computer storage has changed over the last 40 years 2020: $400 2010: $1200 2005: $8320 2000: $201,600 1990: $144 million 1980: $3.7 billion
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The scariest Halloween decorations of all time. credit: James Worsham
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Incredible lighting in San Antonio last night From Bryan Mireles
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Landspout tornadoes Tuesday evening just west of OKC. Thanks to Stephen Blake Manry #okwx
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