Ryan Hoke
Ryan Hoke’s passion for weather started at a very early age. A childhood fear of thunderstorms quickly developed into a full-fledged obsession with weather as he began his teenage years. This charted a path that would eventually lead him to create a weather forecasting website for his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. The website quickly gained notoriety among the regional weather community and led to an interesting summer job offer: Being a storm chaser. Ryan joined a storm chasing vacation tour company during his junior year of high school in 2008. Since then, he has spent many weeks in the Great Plains guiding and driving paying customers to see tornadoes and severe weather. Ryan has seen over a dozen tornadoes and thrives off the thrill of the chase while relaying crucial storm reports to the National Weather Service and media. Storm chasing has been the ultimate field-learning experience, giving him an early edge in severe weather tracking and forecasting that most students never get. As a Distinguished Scholar at Mississippi State University, Ryan is continuing his education in meteorology. Even though he calls Louisville his hometown, his birthplace of Murfreesboro, Tennessee remains close at heart. You can catch Ryan’s forecasts on Good Morning West Tennessee, Saturdays at 6am.
