Soci@l Media & @NWSAmarillo

B.J. SimpsonSenior Forecaster

National Weather Service Amarillo

What We’ll Give You• Your questions answered• Graphical forecasts• Interesting weather tidbits• Pictures from damage surveys• Meteorology “lessons” and

education• Links to important websites• Situation awareness posts–More geared toward public

• Info and pictures from community events

What We Want from You• Likes, shares, and re-tweets!

Lots of them!!• Weather Reports–When, where, what?–PICTURES!! (why tell us when

you can show us?)• Tweet it with the #PHwx hashtag and/or post to our FB page• Pictures personalize the threat for Panhandle residents

What NWS Social Media is Not

• A Place to Get Warnings–Maybe someday…but not yet

• A place to request a briefing

• A place for official requests (Civil Emergency Messages, etc)

#PHwx• What does it mean?–PH=Panhandle wx=weather

• What can you do with it?–Search it via twitter–Embed the stream to a

webpage–Follow severe weather event

reports real-time–Quickly view all Panhandle

weather-specific tweets

#PHwx

Find Us

• Facebook search for “National Weather Service Amarillo” (Facebook)

• Follow us on Twitter: @NWSAmarillo (twitter)