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Dr. Robin Tanamachi @tornatrix.bsky.social 🌪📡

@tornatrix

3 years

This is why we don't put surface observing stations in major cities: The buildings modify the air flow! Clearest demonstration I've yet seen of this concept. Source:

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This is one of the best examples I’ve ever seen of an undular #bore causing new #convection ! #radar #storms #OKWX

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I, a tornado researcher, do not wish for EF-5 tornadoes. Because, by definition, that would mean I would wish for one- and two-family residences to have their slabs swept clean, and the humans inside almost certainly dead from traumatic injury. #becarefulwhatyouwishfor

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Remember when @NWSBirmingham shepherded central AL through the 2011 tornado outbreak? Or how their employees went to work faithfully earlier this year for nearly five weeks without pay? I stand with @NWSBirmingham even if their parent agency, @noaa , does not.

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NOAA releases a Friday evening, unattributed statement disavowing the NWS Birmingham tweet from Sunday saying Dorian wasn’t going to impact Alabama.

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Meteorology students: Have your summer courses / internships been cancelled? Here are some suggestions for alternative activities that will give you a jump on the fall semester. Never stop learning! I invite others to add resources to this thread: /1

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I really don’t get the root of the outrage with NWS’s rating the 12/10 KY/TN tornado an EF-4. It doesn’t make the lives lost worth any less than if it had been rated EF-5. It doesn’t invalidate the legitimacy of the human trauma.

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Twister 2: Hi Jo! Glad You’re Okay. I’m A Producer With Universal Studios. Did You Shoot This Film? If So, May We Have Your Permission To Repost It On All Our Platforms In Perpetuity For $0? Please Click The Link Below If You Agree! Thx!

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Coming soon! EF-scale v 3.0 will include new DIs, and radar (incl. mobile radar) observations will be admissible evidence for EF rating. #30SLS Source: @TornadoTornado

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Funny. I didn’t miss you, either.

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2 years

I just found out I’m being promoted to associate professor this summer! This is the culmination of six years of work. I am still in a daze, and not just because I was up until 2:30 am working on some Python code for my radar class.

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No need to call or tweet NWS offices about what you see on your radar app. Literally everyone in this real life NWS ops video is using state-of-the-science tools to interrogate radar data and integrate it with other info. What they need are storm spotter reports from the ground.

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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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This is how I describe the differences between different versions of WSR-88D data to my class.

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@tornatrix

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Well that’s two consecutive HRRR runs (16z and 17z) generating an isolated supercell near Purdue. #XTRRA is in rapid scan mode for the rest of the day. (Fingers crossed that I don’t burn out the magnetron!) I’m also planning to launch a radiosonde with students around 2000 UTC.

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I’m getting some requests to “show my work” for my beam height estimate based on this graphic. Here you go. Even with a slightly overestimated range, the beam height still ends up being 250-300 m at the range of the tornado, far above ground level.

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Preliminary Wind Summary Measurements and Analysis from Harlan, IA tornado on Friday (26 April 2024). Winds of ~224 mph and diameter of max winds of ~2966 ft. Observations were taken as part of the @NSF -sponsored #BEST project led by @karen_kosiba and @JoshuaWurman

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New office selfie! I’m at UCAR on sabbatical this academic year, working with COMET on an NSF-funded Radar Meteorology course for their MetEd web site.

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On this 50th anniversary of #SuperOutbreak1974 , a reflectivity loop from Covington, KY WSR-57 radar, showing tornadic supercells impacting Cincinnati and Xenia, OH. Though blurry, these images were used to save lives. 16 mm digital transfer from @ErnieAgee ’s archives @PurdueEAPS

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Well that escalated quickly. Looking N from 2 Miles south of Buck Creek IN at 2256 UTC. Lasted about 60 seconds. Dissipated now. Reported on NWS chat. #inwx #funnelcloud

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He didn’t explicitly order a tornado to strike the Capitol. He just destabilized the atmosphere, gathered the moisture, cranked the CAPE up to 15,000 J/kg, twisted the LL wind profile into a semicircle, and then gave thousands of parcels a gentle nudge upward.

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Prime example of atmospheric refraction enhanced by cold thunderstorm outflow. After the gust front (thin reflectivity line) passes over KIND and the surrounding area, clutter suddenly appears. The radar beam is bent back toward the ground by cool air behind the gust front. #inwx

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I have nothing but respect for NWS Storm Prediction Center and its forecasters. @NWSSPC is THE best severe wx forecast office in the world, full stop. 👏 👏 Their critics have clearly never spent a day in the hot seat. 🔥 🪑 🔥

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@GCarbin

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@NWS SPC severe weather outlook forecasts, and verifying reports, for yesterday's #Tornado and severe storm events.

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I’ve offically changed from one kind of Ass. Prof. to another kind of Ass. Prof. I was told that, with this promotion, I would gain the ability to shoot flaming balls of plasma from my hands. So far, the results are underwhelming.

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Ten years ago today, @meteodan and I donned “I’d rather be storm chasing” T-shirts and were married by a judge in Norman, Oklahoma. Best $60 we ever spent. We’re a little older, grayer, and heavier than we were back then, but he’s still my favorite chase partner!

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To my transgender students, colleagues, and friends: I am ashamed that my institution is hosting a speaker who rejects your humanity. You belong, you are valuable, and I respect you for who you are.

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I don't know why it occurred to me to do this, but I put a SPC categorical outlook graphic thru an R-G color vision deficiency emulator, and this was the result. The colors for marginal and moderate are similar. At least the labels help. Reminder: 8% / 0.5% of men/women have CVD

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Dan just sent me this pic of an elephant trunk tornado. He was ~ 5 mi W of Knoxville, IA, looking N abt 5 min ago. @NWSDesMoines @Meteodan

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I *finally* made some plots of the tornadic supercell from last Friday (6/25) near Rossville, IN. Fortuitously, it was in our least blocked sector so I can plot the 0.5 deg tilt! @NWSIndianapolis @PurdueEAPS @Py_ART

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Happy 11th anniversary, @meteodan ! How it started: How it's going:

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Happy #PrideMonth . You are iridescent!

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3 years

Seeing a lot of armchair #efscale ratings of last Friday’s #tornadoes on SM. Seriously; let the experts do their jobs. They are combing through multi-state “crime scenes.” One is >200 miles long. It takes time. Let the work be done properly, even if it’s not on your schedule.

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#IVoted for reproductive rights. 🗳️ #IVoted for LGBTQ rights. 🗳️ #IVoted for science. 🗳️ #IVoted for teachers. 🗳️ #IVoted for libraries. 🗳️ #IVoted for decency and civility. 🗳️ #IVoted for responsible / accountable government. #IVoted for democracy. 🗳️

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16 years ago today started with a flat tire on a #radar truck and ended with my witnessing the birth of the Greensburg, Kansas, EF-5 #tornado . This case became the focus of my Ph.D. #dissertation : 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00142.1 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00099.1

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Yay! This will be my first BAMS article, and my first foray into scholarship of teaching and learning!

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Some personal news: Our amazing dog, Boson, recently passed away. @Meteodan and I are coming to grips with the fact that he’s gone after 12.5 years. Here he was, howling along with our weekly tornado siren test on 4 May. We miss him dearly. ❤️‍🩹 🌈

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People hyperventilating about how their Radarscope screenshots prove Hurricane #Ian is "really" Cat 5 need to keep the radar beam height in mind. The speeds might be much higher at (in this case) > 10 kft than at the surface. And follow @NHC_Atlantic , pls; they have far more data

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Set your DVRs! American Experience episode on Dr. Ted Fujita premieres 19 May 2020!

Mr. Tornado

IN PRODUCTION: In this film Rossi tells the story of Tetsuya Theodore Fujita, aka Mr. Tornado, a prominent Japanese-American researcher who was instrumental in advancing modern understanding of many...

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Life imitates the Fujita (1985) conceptual model of a downburst:

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Downburst around 6:30 am this morning looking north towards Edmond from Sante Fe and Memorial. #okwx @LaceySwope @CassieHeiter

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“The atmosphere just makes vortices. We’re the idiots trying to put them in bins.” —Dr. Chuck Doswell III

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A hearty congratulations to @PurdueEAPS ' newest Ph.D. recipient, Dr. Allison LaFleur ( @lafleurwx )! Her dissertation is entitled, "ZDR Arc Area and Intensity as a Precursor to Low Level Rotation in Supercells."

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Now seems like as good a time as any to review the common causes of death in tornadoes: •Head injury •Spine trauma •Crush injury to the chest This is what you flirt with when you try to "zero meter." Source: 10.1016/S0736-4679(98)00125-5

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I'm excited to share that I've been appointed to the @ametsoc Board on Higher Education (BHE)! I hope to learn about the landscape of experiential learning in atmospheric science, and develop ways to make authentic learning more accessible to undergraduates.

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Show me your first tornado! This was mine: Benson, Minnesota, 11 June 2001. #MyFirstTornado

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I painted this interpretation of the 1986 Fridley, MN #tornado at an art retreat this weekend. Wait until you see what I have planned for it….

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I haven’t been this excited about a TV program in years! Who’s watching with me?!? #MrTornadoPBS

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I love this gentle reminder that NWS employees are regular people who live and work in the communities that they serve. NWS doesn’t just serve the public, they are the public.

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Good morning! There will be surveys today, but after a long night and getting kids to schools, we are not quite out the door just yet. We have 13 total tracks we know we have to investigate. We are grabbing the prospective paths and will send more info later. #okwx #texomawx

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After more than a decade of hemming and hawing, I finally got my “origin story” #tornado #tattoo . What can I say? I wanted the design up to my specifications before I had it permanently emblazoned on my body. #ouch #ouch #ouch #thinkbeforeyouink

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Could not have timed it better; class started just as the #coldfront arrived. Students are collecting measurements!

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I watched the 2013 Moore, OK EF5 churn across the horizon from the KOUN building. Saw homes, businesses, and cars being lofted. I knew the tornado was killing people, and that knowledge made me nauseous. Helpless, too, because there wasn’t a damn thing I could do about it.

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Any chaser crying because none of the recent tornadoes have been rated EF5, because the damage you saw “clearly” supported that rating…or who are hoping for an EF5 tomorrow…you’re a bunch of 🤡s. Seeing that kind of impact is a type of horrifying I cannot even put into words..

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I put “Dr.” in front of my Twitter handle for a reason: I earned that title with my brains and grit (not to mention most of my 20s). I’d challenge anyone to face examination by my Ph.D. committee, emerge victorious, and NOT insist on being called “Doctor”.

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. @ametsoc needs to seriously reconsider accepting Accuweather sponsorship for future conferences, seeing as there seems to be no limit to the depth to which the latter can stoop.

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Another jaw-dropping skew-T from inside the high risk area. These supplemental radiosondes are one way scientific storm chasing can really help the forecasters working the event!

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Be on the lookout for this new mobile radar on the Plains: UMass LPR (low power radar) will be collecting rapid scan dual pol obs in supercells! Training on it this week.

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Canine disdrometer dutifully returning with his samples! Woof! #inwx #snow

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Gorgeous lake effect snow band over Lake Michigan right now. Weak horizontal wind shear across the band is creating the billows / cat-eyes pattern. The band is unloading heavy snow around Michigan City, IN. #miwx #inwx

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“Maybe the problems of two people don't amount to a hill of beans. But… this is our hill. And these are our beans!” —Leslie Nielsen Happy 12th Anniversary @Meteodan !

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Stopped by to say hi to some old friends. #Twistex

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Tornado approaching La Moille, IL from the NNW at 755 CT @NWSQuadCities @NWSChicago

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Turning down my household thermostat to try to recreate the feeling of being in a frigid meeting hall. #AMS2021

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#tornado continues N of Arlington, WI. Motion is very slow to the E. Funnel becoming rain wrapped and difficult to see now. #wiwx @NWSMKX

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By 8 a.m., West Lafayette already used up its daily quota of orange. #inwx

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Thanks for the supportive responses! Pride Month isn’t about me. It’s about my LGBTQIA colleagues and students who face worse than this every day. If the above is the price I pay for allyship, I’ll gladly pay it.

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My son and I got the Storm Chasers board game from Target. Our first game ended like I expected. We’ll try again tomorrow.

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I have nothing but respect for @nws personnel and their hard work protecting and informing ALL Americans, 24/7/365. If that extreme position loses me a few followers, so be it. I’m on SM to advocate for science and science education, not for popularity.

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“Big whorls have little whorls Which feed on their velocity, And little whorls have lesser whorls And so on to viscosity.” — Lewis Fry Richardson

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We've got a vortex rotating around a vortex rotating around another vortex This one goes at least three levels deep

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Please spare a thought for Dr. Chuck Doswell. He’s in the hospital with atrial defibrillation (Afib). His wife, Vickie, is posting updates on Facebook. Below he self-reports his condition in typical Chuck style. Get well, Chuck! I can’t take any more #2020 !

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Just moderated this morning’s #30SLS session 17A while wearing my @GirlsWhoChase T-shirt!

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Congratulations Dr. Milind Sharma ( @Gewitter_Blitz )! Take a bow! @PurdueEAPS @Meteodan @deeplycloudy

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Find the cyclone #INwx

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Finally decided to drop my policy of not following my own students on Twitter until post-graduation. Why? Because they have worthwhile things to say, and I’m in a position to amplify them.

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Multiple cyclonic vortices! zeta = dv/dx - du/dy

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I've been telling folks for a couple of months, but finally an official announcement: Purdue is getting a wx radar!

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When I got my B.S., I was told I wasn’t cut out for grad school because I got a C in Dynamics II. After a year as a research intern, I was wholeheartedly encouraged to pursue grad school. I got my M.S. & Ph.D. Which just goes to show, you should always get a 2nd opinion.

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Seeing this going around & thought it might be a good prompt & discussion starter. Surprise Friday #ShareYourStory ! What is the worst advice someone has given you? And what was your reaction/action to that advice?

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Nice example of a nearly circular outflow boundary over the Twin Cities. Saving this one for class! Thanks @jmtlauderdale for pointing it out. #mnwx

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Beef up your programming and coding skills. Python is useful for meteorological calculation and visualization. Check out @MetPy , @PyAOS , @Py_ART and Tutorials: /2

openradar

Unwritten understanding all code addition to be done by PR and everything to be collaborative. No unexpected actions. - openradar

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When you’re reviewing grad school apps and the letter writer insinuates that their student would do well in your discipline because your discipline is not as rigorous as theirs:

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Proud #overeducatedwoman whose job is to (“over-“)educate others. I also lead a small army of cats. 🐈 🐈‍⬛ 🐈 🐈‍⬛ 🐈 🐈‍⬛

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ICYMI, this was the opening slide from my tenure talk:

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Can we just marvel for a moment at how accurate the cloud forecasts were five days before #eclipse2024 ? This map was issued on 3 April. Hats off to NWS!

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"Totality or Bust, Check the forecast and adjust!" Here is the latest cloud cover and weather hazards forecast for the upcoming total solar eclipse. Please check back for future updates!

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We went, we saw, we stuck a fork in it and came back. In lieu of tornado, here is @meteodan in his element. Good day to get the storm chasing cobwebs out.

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I took synoptic meteorology from Dr. Droegemeier! Finally, a nomination I can support!

The wait is over: Trump taps meteorologist as White House science adviser

Nature - Nomination of Kelvin Droegemeier could end long drought at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

www.nature.com

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I went kitten-chasing on Friday, and bagged one! My sister rescued 6wo girl in NC. Our family was wanting a new cat, so yday I made a 13.5hr round trip to WV to meet my sister halfway. We’ve named the kitten Aster, short for Asterisk; because 2020 has been such an “asterisk” year

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It was my honor to serve on this #AMS40Radar panel, “Utilizing Emerging Radar Technologies to Achieve New Scientific Discoveries”, with (L to R): Drs. Brenda Dolan, @DrAngelaRowe , @WxMomOU , Ulrike Romatschke!

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4 years

Show me a person whose dissertation contains zero typos, and I’ll show you a liar.

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8 months

As I’ve transitioned from an early- to mid-career scientist, I’ve become more convinced of the importance of “research play”: Just screwing around with data and tools and seeing what emerges. Too bad there aren’t funding mechanisms for that.

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10 months

I don’t consider myself a Swiftie, but the fact that her Time Magazine POTY selection has pissed off so many incels raises my opinion of her considerably.

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2 years

Feeling like a million bucks (okay, just slightly over two thousand bucks) after successfully changing a magnetron myself, with zero casualties. #XTRRA ’s back online, y’all!

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5 years

I won an engagement award from @PurdueScience and @PurdueEAPS for my work bringing the #XTRRA here!

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3 years

. @Meteodan PIPS 2B might have some erroneous DSDs.

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3 months

That feeling when I click on a story about storm chasing in a major international news outlet and their first interview subject is… me. Oh yeah, I did give that interview back in April.

'The pressure change was causing me to have contractions': What it's really like to be a tornado...

How tornadoes form remains one of nature's biggest mysteries. Meet the scientists who are chasing twisters to unlock the secrets of destructive storms.

www.bbc.com

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3 years

In 2010, the radar truck I was in was T-boned by another vehicle whose driver who was watching the tornado rather than stopping at an intersection where it was required by law. I was fortunate that the only consequences were a lost day’s chase, vehicle damage, and a sore shoulder

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2 years

Session 9 of #30SLS was dedicated to @bsbarret #ThumbsUpForBrad !

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3 years

We lost the sonde at 579 mb, but look at the 0-1 km shear! #inwx @NWSIndianapolis @purdueeaps @meteodan

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6 months

Every so often, I run across a Doppler velocity image that’s a work of art. I count at least five distinct layers with different wind directions and speed maxima.

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3 years

Why does it feel like we rocketed past the “pandemic impacted everyone” phase to the amnesiac “So, what explains your productivity slowdown these past two years?”

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5 months

Picturesque shallow #fog in low lying areas of West Lafayette, IN this morning. #INwx

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10 months

It was my honor yday to witness my former grad student, @Gewitter_Blitz , marry his longtime girlfriend, Sruthi Dasika. The combined IQ of this couple is dazzling! Thank you to both families for allowing me to take part in this lovely Indian ritual.

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2 years

When senior professors retire, junior professors inherit their libraries. Thanks for my newly expanded collection of vintage textbooks, preprints, slides, maps, and videos, @ErnieAgee ! @Meteodan

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2 years

@CameronJNixon If the vortex wasn’t captured on video, imagine how perplexed the vehicle owner, insurance agent, police, etc. would be, trying to explain the scene. Fascinating case!

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3 years

I finally broke down and told MS Word that “tornadogenesis” is, in fact, a real word.

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3 years

Agree with @Meteodan that these wavelike structures in the rain-snow transition zone on #XTRRA are probably Kelvin-Helmholtz waves, considering that the winds above are is almost 180 degrees opposed to the winds below!

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