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Anthony Lyza
A photograph of Anthony Lyza in 2024
Anthony Lyza in 2024
OccupationMeteorologist
Known for
  • Head of the NOAA Testbed and Visualization Support Team[1]
  • Expert on tornadoes[2]
Notable work

Anthony W. Lyza is an American meteorologist and expert on tornadoes who heads the Testbed and Visualization Support Team, a branch of the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), one of the research laboratories of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).[1][2]

Education

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Lyza attended Valparaiso University in Indiana, where he graduated in 2012 with a bachelor's degrees in meteorology. He then attended the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where he gradated with a master's degree in 2015 and a Ph.D. in 2019, both in meteorology.[1]

Career

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Lyza served as the Physical Sciences Coordinator for the VORTEX-USA Project, a meteorological research project led and funded by the United States government.[1][5] Between 2022–2023, Lyza was a coordinating scientist on the PERiLS Project.[1] Following the PERiLS Project, Lyza became the head of the Testbed and Visualization Support Team, which works at the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) at the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma.[1]

Lyza is currently an Associate Editor of Monthly Weather Review and the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, both of which are published by the American Meteorological Society.[1]

Publications

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Lyza has authored numerous academic publications, the most notable publication being a case study, led by Lyza representing the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), with other authors from the University of Oklahoma's School of Meteorology, published with the American Meteorological Society titled Where Have the EF5s Gone? A Closer Look at the "Drought" of the Most Violent Tornadoes in the United States. The study was focusing on the "EF5 drought", which found that the probability of no EF5-rated tornadoes happening within an eleven-year span would be approximately 0.3%, contrary to the 55.6% of no EF5 tornado happening per year up to 2023.[6] The study also questioned the reliability of the scale as a whole, asking "should tornado ratings be more reflective of total impact, and not solely tied to wind speed estimates?" while citing the four EF5 tornadoes during the 2011 Super Outbreak as a reason for inaccurate percentages.[6] The case study was added into the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Library after its publication.[7][8][3]

Another notable publication from Lyza was Damage Analysis and Close-Range Radar Observations of the 13 April 2019 Greenwood Springs, Mississippi, Tornado during VORTEX-SE Meso18-19, published in July 2022. This case study was led by Lyza, representing the National Severe Storms Laboratory and the University of Oklahoma, was in coordination with two other researchers with the University of Alabama in Huntsville and was funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to investigate the unsurveyed portion of the tornado track. The goal of the study was to investigate a 8.7 miles (14 km) stretch of the 2019 Greenwood Springs tornado's track which was unsurveyable to the National Weather Service. The study found that a NEXRAD radar only 980 yards (900 m) away from the tornado documented radial velocities of up to 182 mph (293 km/h). The researchers also found that the tornado "produced forest devastation and electrical infrastructure damage up to at least EF4 intensity" and conclude by writing that "the Greenwood Springs event was a violent tornado, potentially even EF5 intensity."[4] The case study was also added into the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Library after its publication.[9]

Other publications by Lyza include:

  • The Propagation, Evolution, and Rotation in Linear Storms (PERiLS) Project, an October 2024 paper on the PERiLS Project which Lyza was second author on.[10]
  • Observed Relationships between Supercell Mesocyclone Intensity and Evolution, Background Environmental Characteristics, and Cell Mergers in 2024.[11]
  • Comparison of Tornado Damage Characteristics to Low-Altitude WSR-88D Radar Observations and Implications for Tornado Intensity Estimation in 2024 which Lyza was lead author on.[12]
  • The Influence of Cell Mergers on Supercell Characteristics and Tornado Evolution on 27–28 April 2011 in 2023, which Lyza was lead author on.[13]
  • A Multi-Platform Reanalysis of the Kankakee Valley Tornado Cluster on 30 June 2014 in 2019, which Lyza was lead author on.[14]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g National Severe Storms Laboratory. "Tony Lyza". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
  2. ^ a b "Experts to preview major study on tornadoes in southeast United States". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 22 February 2022.
  3. ^ a b Rice, Doyle (7 March 2025). "The worst type of tornado hasn't hit the US for over a decade, perplexing experts". USA Today. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
  4. ^ a b Lyza, Anthony W.; Goudeau, Barrett T.; Knupp, Kevin R. (July 2022). "Damage Analysis and Close-Range Radar Observations of the 13 April 2019 Greenwood Springs, Mississippi, Tornado during VORTEX-SE Meso18-19". Monthly Weather Review. 150 (7). American Meteorological Society: 1873–1893. Bibcode:2022MWRv..150.1873L. doi:10.1175/MWR-D-21-0281.1. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
  5. ^ Dolce, Chris (21 March 2017). "Tornadoes in the Southeast May Be Influenced by Mountainous Terrain; VORTEX-SE Project Investigating This Spring". The Weather Channel. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
  6. ^ a b Lyza, Anthony W.; Brooks, Harold E.; Krocak, Makenzie J. (January 23, 2025). "Where Have the EF5s Gone? A Closer Look at the "Drought" of the Most Violent Tornadoes in the United States". American Meteorological Society (aop): 11. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0066.1. ISSN 0003-0007. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
  7. ^ "NOAA Central Library Journals (QC851 .A6)". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 2025. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  8. ^ "New Study Reveals The Lack Of EF5 Tornadoes". The Weather Channel. Retrieved 2025-02-26.
  9. ^ "NOAA Library: Damage Analysis and Close-Range Radar Observations of the 13 April 2019 Greenwood Springs, Mississippi, Tornado during VORTEX-SE Meso18-19". NOAA Central Library Repository. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
  10. ^ Kosiba, Karen A.; Lyza, Anthony W.; Trapp, Robert J.; Rasmussen, Erik N.; Parker, Matthew; Biggerstaff, Michael I.; Nesbitt, Stephen W.; Weiss, Christopher C.; Wurman, Joshua; Knupp, Kevin R.; Coffer, Brice; Chmielewski, Vanna C.; Dawson, Daniel T.; Bruning, Eric; Bell, Tyler M.; Coniglio, Michael C.; Murphy, Todd A.; French, Michael; Blind-Doskocil, Leanne; Reinhart, Anthony E.; Wolff, Edward; Schneider, Morgan E.; Silcott, Miranda; Smith, Elizabeth; Aikins, Joshua; Wagner, Melissa; Robinson, Paul; Wilczak, James M.; White, Trevor; Diedrichsen, Madeline R.; Bodine, David; Kumjian, Matthew R.; Waugh, Sean M.; Alford, A. Addison; Elmore, Kim; Kollias, Pavlos; Turner, David D. (October 2024). "The Propagation, Evolution, and Rotation in Linear Storms (PERiLS) Project". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 105 (10). American Meteorological Society: E1768 – E1799. Bibcode:2024BAMS..105E1768K. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0064.1.
  11. ^ Flournoy, Matthew D.; Lyza, Anthony W.; Wade, Andrew R.; Fischer, Jannick (August 2024). "Observed Relationships between Supercell Mesocyclone Intensity and Evolution, Background Environmental Characteristics, and Cell Mergers". Monthly Weather Review. 152 (8): 1945–1962. Bibcode:2024MWRv..152.1945F. doi:10.1175/MWR-D-23-0199.1. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
  12. ^ Lyza, Anthony W.; Flournoy, Matthew D.; Alford, A. Addison (August 2024). "Comparison of Tornado Damage Characteristics to Low-Altitude WSR-88D Radar Observations and Implications for Tornado Intensity Estimation". Monthly Weather Review. 152 (8): 1689–1710. Bibcode:2024MWRv..152.1689L. doi:10.1175/MWR-D-23-0242.1.
  13. ^ Lyza, Anthony W.; Flournoy, Matthew D. (June 2023). "The Influence of Cell Mergers on Supercell Characteristics and Tornado Evolution on 27–28 April 2011". Monthly Weather Review. 151 (6): 1551–1569. Bibcode:2023MWRv..151.1551L. doi:10.1175/MWR-D-22-0189.1.
  14. ^ Lyza, Anthony W.; Castro, Richard; Lenning, Eric; Friedlein, Matthew T.; Borchardt, Brett S.; Clayton, Adam W. (5 October 2021). "A Multi-Platform Reanalysis of the Kankakee Valley Tornado Cluster on 30 June 2014". e-Journal of Severe Storms Meteorology. 14 (3): 1–64. doi:10.55599/ejssm.v14i3.73. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
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