Allison Chinchar Biography
Allison Chinchar is an American anchor working for CNN as a Meteorologist/ Writer. She joined the CNN news team in June 2015, after previously working for WXIA TV.
Chinchar works as a meteorologist for CNN and HLN. She often appears on CNN International shows, as well as HLN’s “Weekend Express” and CNN’s “New Day Weekend.” She worked as a meteorologist at local stations in Atlanta, Nashville, and Chattanooga, Tennessee, before she joined CNN in June 2015. She has reported on blizzards, wildfires, hurricanes, and floods on The Weather Channel. For her coverage of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas in 2019, she was nominated for an Emmy.
During the Super Tornado Outbreak of April 2011, over 350 tornadoes hit the Southeastern United States in just four days. On April 27, alone, over 200 of those tornadoes hit. Because she studied environmental science in college, she has covered about more than just climate change. She has also reported about volcanoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters. Before there, she worked at WXIA-TV as a meteorologist in Atlanta, Georgia for almost three years. She also worked at WKRN-TV in the Greater Nashville Area, TN from January 2011 to June 2012.
Before there, she served at WTVC-TV NewsChannel0 as a meteorologist, writer, reporter, and graphics designer from March 2008 to January 2011. At The Ohio State University, Chinchar earned a Bachelor of Science in Atmospheric Science. The National Weather Association, the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, the American Meteorological Society, and the International Association of Broadcast Meteorology are some of the other groups she belongs to.
Allison Chinchar Salary
Chinchar earns a salary of about $47,000-$120,000.
Allison Chinchar Net Worth
Chinchar has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $7 Million which she has earned through her career as a Meteorologist.
Allison Chinchar Age
Chinchar was born on April 9, 1984, in Mansfield, Ohio, United States. She is 39 years old as of 2023, and she celebrates her birthday on the 9th of April every year.
Allison Chinchar Height and Weight
Chinchar stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches tall (1.70m) and weighs 63 kgs (138 lbs).
Allison Chinchar Family
Chinchar likes to keep her personal life private hence she has neither disclosed the names of her parent nor those of her siblings. However, this information will be updated when available.
Allison Chinchar Husband and Children
Chinchar is married to Mike Bettes, an American meteorologist and television host. The couple tied the knot in 2012 and together they are blessed with one child. Mike Bettes is the host of Weather Underground TV. Since 2003, Bettes has been an on-camera meteorologist for TWC. She also fills in as a weather reporter on The Today Show sometimes.
From 2006 to 2009, Bettes was the host of Abrams & Bettes Beyond the Forecast. From 2009 to 2012, she was to host Your Weather Today. He hosted it until 2014 when it changed its name to Morning Rush. In March of that year, the show started up again as America’s Morning Headquarters. Bettes also used to host Wake Up With Al from 2009 to 2014. Bettes works as a field reporter for The Weather Channel and is the lead field analyst for The Great Tornado Hunt, a show that airs every year and sums up the tornado seasons across the country.
Bettes went with experts to VORTEX2 for TWC coverage. As well as hurricanes like Katrina and Sandy, he has also covered live news from floods and cold storms. In El Reno, Oklahoma, on May 31, 2013, an EF3 (formerly EF5) tornado hit, but he was able to escape. Eight people died that day. After a year, he and his team went back to the Great Plains as part of the 2014 Tornado Track to predict and report bad weather.
Allison Chinchar Mike Bettes Tornado incident
In 2013, an EF3 tornado hit El Reno, Oklahoma, affecting several storm chasers. The storm rolled and threw his SUV into a field about 180 yards away. The roof fell on his team, hurting them badly. The driver, Austin Anderson, broke several bones. In the end, Reed Timmer and his SRV Dominator team found them. They were storm chasing for Oklahoma City’s KFOR-TV when they saw Bettes’s damaged SUV and saw that it had marks from The Weather Channel on it. They pulled over to help the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and other first responders, but they had to leave to get away from the worst of the storm.
Tim Samaras, his son Paul, and Carl Young, all of whom worked for TWISTEX, were killed by the same tornado. Someone from the area named Richard Charles Henderson was also killed in the same area as the TWISTEX crew when he decided to follow the storm.
Allison Chinchar Social Media Platform
Chinchar is very active on her Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. She has 6.2k followers on Twitter 2.2k followers on Instagram, and 2.3k followers on Facebook.