Jeff Hutton will be the guest speaker at the Stevens County Conservation District’s Sixty-eighth Annual Appreciation Banquet Saturday, February 24 at the Memorial Hall in Hugoton. Join them for dinner, accomplishments, awards, meeting and elections. Hunny’s BBQ will be catering the dinner, courtesy of Citizens State Bank. Also, door prizes will be given away!
Mr. Hutton is the Warning Coordination Meteorologist for the National Weather Service office in Dodge City. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Meteorology from the University of Oklahoma in 1983 and began his professional career in weather during that same year working for a private firm in Oklahoma City. He joined the National Weather Service in Des Moines, Ia. in 1989.
A native of Dodge City, Mr. Hutton was selected as one of the first forecasters at the modernized weather office in Dodge City in early 1992. He was selected as the Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the Dodge City office in 1994, a position he has held since.
As the Warning Coordination Meteorologist, Mr. Hutton actively works with city, county and state officials in promoting weather awareness and safety. He also trains spotters and citizens on weather identification and safety issues pertaining to severe weather and is responsible for training his local office employees in many aspects of severe weather.
