Nelson Robinson
Chief Meteorologist

Nelson Robinson is the Chief Meteorologist for NBC 33 News at 5, 6 & 10pm. He can also be seen on live weather updates throughout the day and
night in the case of an emergency. With nearly three decades of experience, when you need to know the weather, you need to turn to Nelson.

Robinson is a Consulting Industrial Meteorologist and Founder, President and CEO of Alert Weather Services, Inc.

Nelson has proven professional abilities, forecasting experience, knowledge and extensive training, and is an award-winning meteorologist in the broadcast television industry. Nelson received and Emmy nomination (National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences) in 1990 while at WTVF Newschannel5 in Nashville, Tennessee (Mid South Region of the United States). He has won Associated Press awards for Best Weather Reporting while at WSB TV (ABC) Atlanta, Georgia and upon his return to Louisiana, in 1990, won the AP Best Weathercast Award in the state at KATC TV, Lafayette, Louisiana.

His weather forecasting experience extends globally from the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean tropical basins and in America's most weather sensitive television markets. Nelson has served as Chief Meteorologist for KATC in Lafayette, WLOX in Biloxi, KTBC in Austin , Texas. He has served as a Staff Meteorologist at KWTV-9 staff in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, WSB in Atlanta, Georgia, WFAA in Dallas, WTVF in Nashville, Tennessee, before coming back home to Louisiana at KATC. Nelson utilized the very 1st Doppler Radar in the United States, with the KWTV weather team, in Oklahoma City, the tornado capital of the world!

He developed and pioneered several "firsts" with services and products to serve the domestic and international offshore oil & gas industry. Many oil companies, offshore drilling contractors, offshore boat, anchor handling and marine transport companies as well as oil & gas service companies utilize Nelson and Alert Weather Services.

In 1992, Nelson and Alert Weather were the first commercial weather service authorized by the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to assist in first offshore oil explorations in the South China Sea and the PRC and has been providing daily operational and tropical weather forecasts in Asia since 1992. Also in 2001, the First "streaming video" and weather forecast presentations on Alert Weather Services web site delivered or accessed through the world-wide-web.

Nelson's experience is extensive. Nelson worked with Project managers Bob Rugley and Glen Manina of Exxon as the "Lena Project", Meteorological and Oceanographic Manager, the world's "First offshore guyed Tower", opening "deepwater drilling and production technology to the offshore industry", including the first "in-situ" or "real time" monitoring of the Gulf of Mexico "Loop Current". "Lena" was completed in 1983 in Mississippi Canyon, block 280.

Nelson and Alert Weather Services have also supplied operational weather forecasts for the "Return to the Titanic" discovery missions, "Raising of the USS Monitor", and Pinewood Studios-EON Productions Caspian Film unit, in Baku Azerbaijan, for the James Bond, 007 movie, "The World is Not Enough."

Nelson is a member of the American Meteorological Society, National Weather Association, the Royal Meteorological Society (United Kingdom & European Union), Australian Meteorological & Oceanographic Society.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Nelson and his wife Donna have three children.

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