About our Office
National Weather Service office in Lincoln, 2004

NOAA's National Weather Service office for central Illinois is located at the Logan County Airport in Lincoln. The office is home to the WSR-88D Doppler weather radar, and issues public and aviation forecasts, and severe weather warnings, for 35 counties in Central & Southeast Illinois. Click here for a map of neighboring offices' areas of responsibility.

Local Handout of Central Illinois NWS office
Virtual Tour of Central Illinois NWS office
History of the NWS offices in Central Illinois

Meet the staff

Here is a list of the people who make up the staff, and some of their specialties.

* Administrative Staff

Ernest Goetsch Meteorologist-in-Charge
Chris Miller Warning Coordination Meteorologist
Llyle Barker Science and Operations Officer
Billy Ousley Data Acquisition Program Manager
Darrin Hansing Service Hydrologist
Ed Martin Electronics Systems Analyst
Chris Fotinos Information Technology Officer
Patty Peifer Administrative Support Assistant


*Lead Forecasters

James Auten Aviation, Forecast Issues, Homepage team, Intranet Webmaster
Patrick Bak Homepage team, NOAA Weather Radio team, Storm Data, Winter Weather, Fire Weather
Brad Churchill Radar, Service Backup, Storm Products team
Dan Smith

Hydrology assistant, Forecast Issues team, HAM Radio, Security
Ed Shimon Storm Products team, Graphical Forecast Editor, Service Backup assistant


*Forecasters

Matt Barnes SWOP, Storm Products team, Homepage team, Air Quality, Storm Data
Mike Hardiman Graphical Forecast Editor assistant, Forecast Issues team
Kirk Huettl Climate, Homepage Webmaster, NOAA Weather Radio team, EEO/Diversity assistant, Combined Federal Campaign
Heather Stanley EEO/Diversity, Hydrology team, Forecast Issues team


*Hydrometeorological Technicians

John Parr COOP Program Maintenance, COOP observation quality control, Environmental/Safety team


*Meteorologist Interns

Chris Geelhart NOAA Weather Radio, Climate assistant, AWIPS, Homepage assistant, COOP Program Admin
Dan Kelly Upper Air, ASOS/Surface Obs, COOP Program Maintenance, Hydrology assistant, Storm Products team, Climate team
Chuck Schaffer SWOP Assistant, Climate team, Forecast Issues team, LAWRS/SAWRS


*Electronics Technicians

Gary Jones NOAA Weather Radio team, Environmental/Safety team
Jeff Maurice LAN Administration
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