February 17-23 is Severe Weather Awareness week in Tennessee. The National Weather Service in Memphis has been participating in the week-long focus by offering different topics to be discussed each day. Their efforts hope to help educate people about severe weather and the importance of safety in a storm.
Kelton Halbert, a dual-enrollment student at Lipscomb, hopes to study about severe weather after he graduates from high school. After seeing an EF-4 tornado rip through Murfreesboro, Tenn., in 2009, he became interested in everything that went into a severe weather forecast.
Providing different atmospheric analyses for storms that come through the Middle Tennessee area, Halbert is constantly monitoring the weather. He accomplishes this through his blog, Tempest Chasing, and his twitter account, @TempestChasing. After he graduates, Halbert plans on attending the University of Oklahoma to study meteorology.