By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — KSStorm Info Forecaster Scott Roberts is a central Kansas native.
"I'm from Pratt," Roberts said. "I've got a lot of relatives around. My grandmother lived in Hutchinson, raised my mom there. My mom graduated high school back in 1958, a Salthawk."
Roberts is an experienced radio man and storm chaser.
"Other places I've been in Kansas include Colby, Manhattan, Scott City, so I've kind of been all over the place," Roberts said. "I went to KFDI in 1998. That's where my news career really kind of took off. I was with them just about six years before I shifted over to KWCH and was working on their assignment desk as well as coordinating their chasers. Then a couple of years later I left to start my own business. At that point, I became one of the KWCH chasers and that's continued to this day."
Roberts was going to start doing some storm chasing tourism in recent years, but COVID-19 has put those plans on hold.
"It would affect me, because anybody who pays to be with me would then make it kind of a commercial trip," Roberts said. "Then we'd all be required to wear masks for the entire trip, whereas if I'm just going with the guys that I normally go with and we're just hanging out as friends and that kind of stuff, then it's each person's option as to whether they want to wear a mask for the whole time or not."
Roberts and Matthew Harding are providing regular forecasts to the Eagle Radio stations and also have taken over the weather page at Hutch Post.
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