NSSL Staff Profiles

Kodi is the Program Lead for VORTEX-USA at the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). From 2019-2024, she served as the Program Lead for Forecasting a Continuum of Environmental Threats (FACETs). Her primary area of research includes how broadcast meteorologists use and communicate risk information to their viewing audience. Key components of this research include post-event interviews and a mock television studio developed as part of NOAA's Hazardous Weather Testbed. Before joining NSSL, Kodi was the Sea Grant Liaison to NSSL and the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS) at the University of Oklahoma. She also managed and coordinated across all experiments that took place in the NOAA’s Hazardous Weather Testbed. Kodi was also involved in an interdisciplinary research project to model the combined effects of rainfall, runoff, and storm surge for landfalling hurricanes in North Carolina. Prior to her career at CIMMS, Kodi managed a feasibility study to modernize the Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service.

Krocak, M. J., J. Ripberger, K. L. Berry, C. Silva, and H. Jenkins-Smith, 2024: The changing weather information landscape: observations, conjectures, and thoughts about the future. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0041.1.

Obermeier, H. B., K. L. Berry, and J. E. Trujillo-Falcón, 2023: Understanding Broadcast Meteorologists' Current and Future Use of Severe Weather Watches, Warnings, and Probabilistic Hazard Information. Weather, Climate, and Society, 15, 4, 893–907; doi:10.1175/WCAS-D-23-0013.1.

Tripp, D. D., J. E. Trujillo-Falcón, K. E. Klockow-McClain, H. D. Reeves, K. L. Berry, J. S. Waldstreicher, J. A. Nelson, 2023: Foundational Needs of Forecasters for Probabilistic Winter Forecasting. Weather and Forecasting, 38, 1, 3–15, doi:10.1175/WAF-D-22-0116.1.

Martinaitis, S. M., K. A. Wilson, N. Yussouf, J. J. Gourley, H. Vergara, T. C. Meyer, P. L. Heinselman, A. Gerard, K. L. Berry, A. Vergara, J. Monroe, 2023: A Path Toward Short-Term Probabilistic Flash Flood Prediction. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 104, 3, E585–E605, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0026.1.

Obermeier, H. B., K. L. Berry, K. E. Klockow-McClain, A. Campbell, C. Carithers, A. Gerard, J. E. Trujillo-Falcón, 2022: The Creation of a Research Television Studio to Test Probabilistic Hazard Information with Broadcast Meteorologists in NOAA’s Hazardous Weather Testbed. Weather, Climate, and Society, 14, 3, 949–963, doi:10.1175/WCAS-D-21-0171.1.

James, J., C. Ling, A. Bates, G. J. Stumpf, K. Klockow-McClain, P. Hyland, J. LaDue, K. Berry, K. Manross, 2022: Collaboration among Forecasters to Issue Severe Weather Hazard Information and Warnings Using the Hazard Services–Probabilistic Hazard Information (HS-PHI) Tool. Weather and Forecasting, 37, 12, 2275–2291, doi:10.1175/WAF-D-21-0120.1.

Trujillo-Falcón, J. E., J. Reedy, K. E. Klockow-McClain, K. L. Berry, G. J. Stumpf, A. V. Bates, J. G. LaDue, 2022: Creating a Communication Framework for FACETs: How Probabilistic Hazard Information Affected Warning Operations in NOAA’s Hazardous Weather Testbed. Weather, Climate, and Society, 14, 3, 881–892, doi:10.1175/WCAS-D-21-0136.1

Calhoun, K. M., K. L. Berry, D. M. Kingfield, T. Meyer, M. J. Krocak, T. M. Smith, G. Stumpf, A. Gerard, 2021: The Experimental Warning Program of NOAA’s Hazardous Weather Testbed. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102, E2229–E2246, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0017.1.

Trujillo-Falcon, J. E., O. Bermudez, K. Negron-Hernandez, J. Lipski, E. Leitman, K. Berry, 2021: Hazardous Weather Communication En Español: Challenges, Current Resources, and Future Practices. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102, 765–773, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0249.1.