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Jeffrey Medlin

Jeffrey Medlin

Tropical and Winter Weather Meteorologist
Alabama Power-USA Coastal Weather Research Center

Education

  • B.S. 1988 N.C. State University
  • M.S. 2001 University of Alabama-Huntsville

Biography

Jeffrey Medlin served 35 years in the U.S. National Weather Service (retired 2022). During his final eight years, he held the position of Meteorologist in Charge of the NWS Mobile Pensacola where he led a Staff of 22 people. Prior, he served as the Science and Operations  Officer in Mobile, AL from 1994-2014 where he was directly responsible for Staff training,  leading operational research and serving as a liaison to regional universities. He also worked as  an operational meteorologist and in the following NWS Offices\Centers since 1986: Norman,  OK, Charleston, WV, Cincinnati, OH and Columbia, SC. During his 28 years at NWS Mobile-Pensacola, he gained abundant and in-depth experience by working nearly every landfalling  tropical cyclone within the Central Gulf Coast region, as well as countless high impact severe  thunderstorm, tornado, winter weather and marine events. Throughout his career he devoted a great deal of time to improved Forecaster Development, objective mesoanalysis, satellite and  radar interpretation, thunderstorm structure, the forecast process and local modeling. He served  on numerous national and regional teams and committees, most of them, leading organizational  operational change. Moreover, he served within a progression structure as Editor-in-Training,  Assistant Editor and Editor of the NWA E-Journal from 2007-10 and also on several regional mesonet committees since 2002.

He is the author of numerous refereed publications which span  a variety of mesoscale topics and has run a mesoscale model in real-time from the mid  1997-2015 for both forecast and research purposes. He obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree  from N.C. State University in 1988 and a Master of Science Degree in Atmospheric Science from the University of Alabama-Huntsville in 2001. Jeffrey currently serves as the Tropical and Winter Weather Meteorologist for the Alabama-Power USA Coastal Weather Research Center and also as a part time Instructor within the Meteorology Department.