Chris Broyles

John C. "Chris" Broyles is an American meteorologist who is a weather forecaster and tornado forecasting expert with the Storm Prediction Center.

Education Broyles attended St. Edward's University in Texas, before transferring to the University of Northern Colorado, where he graduated with bachelor's degrees in meteorology and journalism.

Forecasting tornado location across the Dakotas and Minnesota in 1998. 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. The Effect of a Low-Level Boundary on the Development of the Panhandle, TX Tornadic Storm on 29 May 2001 in 2002. 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. Radar characteristics of violent tornadic storms using the NSSL algorithms across separate geographic regions of the United States in 2002. An Iterative Storm Segmentation and Classification Algorithm for Convection-Allowing Models and Gridded Radar Analyses in 2022. The OMEGA (Outlook Machine Assembling Algorithm) Project in 2022.