Noah Brauer
@noaabrauer
NWS Meteorologist and proud OU alum (PhD/MS). I study precipitation, microphysics, polarimetric radar, and tropical cyclones. Opinions = my own, not those of my employer.
Issued my first severe thunderstorm warning yesterday. Frame it in Le Louvre
Pretty clear downburst signature just east of DIA from the TDEN TDWR, with a clear divergence signature close to the radar/surface. ASOS reported a 62 mph gust.
The “Cheyenne Sandwich” …when you’re trying to message the heavy rain and lightning threat during an event with thousands of people and the rain avoids the focal point at all costs:
Here providing DSS support for the Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration. It’s been a challenge to see a camera stream without someone wearing a cowboy hat…
That’s a wrap! Had a wonderful 1.5 weeks in Fort Worth and got to work with some awesome, talented people and learned a lot in the process.
Had the awesome opportunity to provide weather support for the ⚽️ game earlier today at the Joint Operations Center in Dallas! Super cool talking to different partners and learning more about what they do and need from us. Plus…soccer!
Neat seeing the abrupt change on the Texas Panhandle from rolling plains to caprock!
Some pretty convection featuring an overshooting top. Looking NE towards Nebraska from Cheyenne.
Intense squall moving through earlier which produced some winds over 60 mph, quarter-sized hail, and a wall cloud:
Hardly any rain in Fort Collins, but an awesome way to come home after 3 straight days of severe weather ops, with 2 more interesting days ahead!
Typical June late afternoon descent into DIA with beautiful high-based convection!
Has got to be one of the most miserable obs I’ve seen in the CONUS. 101/83 in McAllen, TX yielding a heat index of 129°F 🥵🥵
Quite the bounded weak echo region with the tornado-producing storm near Grandview, IL just west of Terre Haute as seen from the Lincoln and Indianapolis 88Ds. Good indication of a strong updraft suspending hydrometeors aloft.
Gravity wave-induced clouds somewhere over Nebraska! Neat seeing the consistent wavelength.
Beautiful backlit updraft, mammatus, and an extensive anvil (with a massive cirrus crown) looking NE from Cheyenne:
Mid-Altitude Radial Convergence (MARC) signature on this storm east of Gurley, NE. Probably producing some very gusty winds at the surface.
Also an embedded three body scatter spike denoted by the drop in correlation coefficient located down radial from the Cheyenne radar.
Beautiful thunderstorm located over the extreme SW Nebraska Panhandle, looking east from Cheyenne.
Thank you! Also saw Cleveland (and maybe some far, far lights from Detroit?) while flying west just north of Columbus. Can see Akron, OH as well. Lights clearly stop on the shore of Lake Erie.
Aerial nighttime photography! Boston, Pittsburgh, and Urbana-Champaign with Chicagoland in the distance.