These individuals are the shift supervisor [there are 3 shifts: day (8:00 AM to 4:00 PM), evening (4:00 PM to 12:00 AM), and midnight (12:00 AM to 8:00 AM)] in the forecast area. They routinely issue public, aviation and marine forecasts and work the radar in severe weather when necessary.  The senior forecaster makes sure that Weather Service products such as forecasts and warnings are issued in a timely fashion.  The senior forecaster also makes shift decisions, assigns duties, logs equipment outages, and keeps a log of events.  There are 5 senior forecasters:

Theses individuals, like the senior forecaster, routinely issue public, aviation and marine forecasts and work the radar when necessary.   The journeyman forecaster also participates in career development projects such as writing meteorological papers or developing weather related computer programs (such as software that will improve shift operations).   There are 5 journeyman forecasters:

These individuals are responsible for a variety of office tasks. The primary task is to keep abreast of changing weather conditions and issue Short Term Forecasts. They compile climatological  reports, and launch radiosonde equipment (attached to weather balloons) twice daily (to measure temperature, wind, and humidity aloft). Other duties include, monitoring area rivers and streams for possible flooding conditions, issue daily hydrological products, prepare and disseminate severe weather watches and warnings, prepare NOAA Weather Radio scripts, monitor the Weather Radio's performance and making sure that the weather radar is functioning properly, and invoking necessary changes to the radar's performance depending on meteorological conditions. The HMT also assists the DAPM with the Cooperative Observing Program. There are 3 HMT's:

This individual is in training to become a journeyman forecaster with the National Weather Service.   The meteorological intern routinely performs the duties of an HMT while learning and understanding weather service procedures.  The meteorological intern occasionally works at the public/aviation forecast desks to learn how to write forecast products.   The meteorological intern is also encouraged to participate in career development projects such as writing meteorological papers or developing weather related computer programs (such as software that will improve shift operations).  There is 1 meteorological intern.