She had to communicate the hard news to her viewers, many times from the front line. As a meteorologist for a Saint Louis TV station, she covered the suffering after weather disasters. She went to the University of Missouri to study weather and forecasting. The tornado sirens and TV warnings were also exciting, she said. 'So whether you're at school or you're at home, as a kid, it can cause anxiety and worry because you don't really have the capability to understand completely what's happening.' 'It's a fairly common thing to grow up in Nebraska and hear tornado warnings frequently at least several times a severe weather season,' she remembered.
She grew up in Tornado Alley in Omaha, Nebraska. NEW YORK - Brigit Mahoney in the FOX Weather studio.