Chris Broyles

Chris Broyles
Chris Broyles
Occupation	Meteorologist
Years active	1994–present
Known for	Forecaster at the Storm Prediction Center / Expert in tornado forecasting
Notable work	Issuing the first and second-ever Day 2 High Risk Outlooks

John C. "Chris" Broyles is an American meteorologist who is a weather forecaster and tornado forecasting expert with the Storm Prediction Center.^[1][2][3]

Broyles attended St. Edwards University in Texas, before transferring to the University of Northern Colorado, where he graduated with bachelor's degrees in meteorology and journalism.^[1]

In 1994, Broyles was hired as an intern at the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Jackson, Kentucky.^[1] Following his internship, Broyles was hired as a forecaster at the NWS office in Aberdeen, South Dakota.^[1] In 2003, Broyles was hired at the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) at the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma as a forecaster.^[1] Throughout his career forecasting at the SPC, Broyles issued 13 High Risk Outlooks, with 10 verifications.^[1] On April 7, 2006, Broyles issued the first-ever Day-2 High Risk Outlook, in preparation for the tornado outbreak of April 6–8, 2006.^[1] This High Risk also included a 60% chance of tornadoes, including at least some becoming significant.^[1] Following verification of this High Risk, the United States Department of Commerce awarded Broyles with a Silver Medal.^[1] On April 14, 2012, Broyles issued the second-ever Day-2 High Risk Outlook, while forecasting for the tornado outbreak of April 13–16, 2012.^[1]

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Original publications by Chris Broyles for the U.S. government

Throughout his career, Broyles has authored and co-authored several academic papers and case studies. Besides academic publications, Broyles led a team of twenty others to create the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Violent Tornado webpage, which documented more than 200 tornado outbreaks throughout the United States' history.^[1][4]

• Forecasting tornado location across the Dakotas and Minnesota in 1998.^[5]
• The role of synoptic patterns and temperature and moisture distribution in determining the locations of strong and violent tornado episodes in the north central United States: A preliminary examination in 2000.^[6]
• The Effect of a Low-Level Boundary on the Development of the Panhandle, TX Tornadic Storm on 29 May 2001 in 2002.^[7]
• Synoptic and mesoscale characteristics associated with violent tornadoes across separate geographic regions of the United States: Part 1 – low-level characteristics & Part 2 – upper-level characteristics in 2002.^[8][9][10]
• Radar characteristics of violent tornadic storms using the NSSL algorithms across separate geographic regions of the United States in 2002.^[11][12]
• An Iterative Storm Segmentation and Classification Algorithm for Convection-Allowing Models and Gridded Radar Analyses in 2022.^[13]

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