Lily Yates
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Lily Yates
@stormsandspace
⛈️ Storm Spotter ⛈️ - 🧡 Oklahoma State University 🧡 - 🔌 Electrical Engineering Junior 🔌 - 📡⛈️ Atmosphere, WxUAS, and Radar Researcher at OSU ⛈️📡

Why do people like Alcohol 😭 Am I drinking the wrong type? 🧍

WE GOT DATA! Check out this first-ever 3-D data set of wind and thermodynamics from the ground up from inside a #tornado! With a peak wind of 131 mph measured above ground, and greater than 115 mph at ground level outside of suction vortices, it appears this tornado was at least an EF2. This data set sheds light on the 3-D structure of the dynamic pipe from ground through the vent, showing a high swirl ratio tornado here. The vent is the powerful updraft at the upper reaches of the dynamic pipe, the strength of which is proportional to the ceiling of the tornado cyclone below. We also computed a pressure perturbation with height, with two maximum deficits happening at launch and farther above ground in the dynamic pipe. Notice the little loop the parachute probe made at the backside of the #tornado at the same time as an RH decrease. We do not believe this is a subvortex here so far above ground. What do you notice with this data? @WillClay25 @localmanweather #stormchasing #Dominator #science





15 years ago years ago today, Joplin, MO was devastated by an EF5 tornado, becoming the worst tornado of the 21st century. The story, meteorology, engineering, and social science that combines to create the worst-case tornado scenario.

What a magnificent beast of a spider at Team Dominator headquarters

This is probably the most sobering video to come out of Moore 2013. He held it together far better than I would have

The moment a Waymo drove full speed into flood waters. @11Alive



Florida outflow boundaries never get old. 🤩 #flwx #wxtwitter






















