Frank Johnson - WBTW News 13 Chief Meteorologist

Email: fjohnson@wbtw.com

Frank is the Chief Meteorologist at News 13 and has years of experience with severe weather and hurricane forecasting. Before moving to the Eastern Carolinas, Frank spent 7 years working in the heart of Tornado Alley. Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms can be a daily occurrence in Oklahoma City during the spring, and Frank was on air when tornadoes hit Oklahoma City on back to back days on May 8 and May 9, 2003. The first tornado was an EF4 and hit the south side of town. The second tornado was an EF3 that came at night and hopped over Frank's neighborhood and then touched back down 1/4 mile south of KOCO-TV, where Frank and the rest of the team stayed on the entire time.

Before working at KOCO, Frank was a meteorologist and tornado chaser at KVII-TV in Amarillo, Texas. Frank caught and tracked several tornadoes through the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles.

Frank also worked at a TV station along the Texas Gulf Coast. Frank was at KBMT-TV in Beaumont when Hurricane Danny formed offshore and moved toward Louisiana. Frank chased the hurricane to Grand Isle, Louisiana where he endured 90 mph winds and a storm surge that swamped the island.

Frank started his TV career at KREX-TV in Grand Junction, Colorado and worked several years on the hurricane and snow warning teams at AccuWeather, a private weather company. Frank has a degree in meteorology from Penn State University.