Weather Team

Jessica Hafner is the Chief Meteorologist for ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather. You can see her forecasts at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. on KMIZ and 9 p.m. on KQFX. Jessica returned to ABC 17 News after three years at KSDK-TV in St. Louis, where she was a meteorologist and fill-in traffic anchor. During her time

Meteorologist Nate Splater joined the ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team in the summer of 2020. He’s from a small town in southern Arkansas and came to mid-Missouri to pursue a degree in meteorology at Mizzou in 2018. Even though it’s been a few years since he first came to Columbia, Nate is still not used

Chance Gotsch is a meteorologist for ABC 17 News and FOX 22. He joined the ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather team in February 2021 and graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in meteorology in Spring 2022. You can usually catch Chance’s forecasts weekdays at noon and 6:30 p.m. on KMIZ.

Sawyer Jackson is an ABC 17 Stormtrack Forecaster and started working for ABC 17 in early October of 2022. He is a senior at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and is working on his master’s degree. You can usually watch him on weekend evenings at 6, 9, and 10 p.m.  Jackson comes from Blue Springs, Missouri,

John Ross joined the ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather team in October 2021. Before that, he spent three years forecasting for southern Illinois, southeast Missouri, western Kentucky, and northwest Tennessee. His love for weather developed as a child, watching Kansas City meteorologists before and after school. John is from Sedalia, Missouri and has a bachelor’s degree in Atmospheric