Ryan Hoke

When I was a small child growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, I was fearful of thunderstorms. This fear turned into an intense fascination with weather during my elementary school years and signaled an exciting career ahead in broadcast meteorology. I started my weather forecast website for the Louisville area in high school, and that’s when Storm Chasing Adventure Tours owner Todd Thorn found me. Since then, I’ve been chasing with Todd and have seen more than a dozen tornadoes. Thanks to Todd, I also got a head start in my severe weather education and earned my meteorology degree from Mississippi State University. During my college years, I was a weather forecaster at a TV station in Tennessee, and now I’m living my dream as a meteorologist at WAVE News in Louisville, Kentucky. I put my skills to work for you through my daily weather briefings and by helping you understand the weather happening as we chase.