Severe thunderstorms capable of producing damaging wind gusts, large hail, and a few tornadoes, are likely to develop this afternoon from parts of the lower Ohio Valley into the southern Plains. An Enhanced Risk (Level 3 of 5) outlook has been issued. Further north, widespread rain showers are expected across portions of the Great Lakes and Northeast U.S. Read More >
Clinton Wallace
Director, Space Weather Prediction Center
National Weather Service
Clinton Wallace is the director of NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) in Boulder, Colorado. SWPC is the Nation’s official civilian source of space weather alerts and warnings, and one of the National Weather Service’s nine National Centers of Environmental Prediction.
Wallace has served as deputy director of NOAA’s Aviation Weather Center in Kansas City, Missouri since 2010, where he fostered a world-class culture, expanded hiring, and oversaw major advances in decision support products and services to aviation customers.
Previously, Wallace was Chief of AWC’s Aviation Support Branch from late 2003 to 2010, directing aviation research-to-operations and operations-to-research while championing the application of new innovations, collaborative science and applied research efforts. He also served as a Research & Development Meteorologist at AWC from 1999 to 2003, as an Agricultural Weather Analyst at the Climate Prediction Center from 1998 to 1999, and as a Research Associate with the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, OK from 1995 to 1998.
Wallace earned a Master’s Degree in Meteorology from the University of Oklahoma in 1997, and graduated Cum Laude in 1994 from Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma with a Bachelor’s Degree, double majoring in Engineering Physics and Mathematics.
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