Chris Warren is a two-time Emmy Award-winning meteorologist with CNN, where he contributes to the network’s weather and climate coverage across platforms.

Previously, Warren spent 15 years as an on-air meteorologist at The Weather Channel, covering hurricanes, tornado outbreaks, winter storms, wildfires and other high-impact weather events. He reported from the field and anchored extended live coverage of major weather events across the country.

Warren was part of the national coverage team recognized with a National Emmy Award for Outstanding Breaking News Coverage for its coverage of Hurricane Helene. He reported live from the eye of the Category 4 hurricane. His coverage experience also includes the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami, the 2011 Super Outbreak, the Oso landslide and the historic 2020 Atlantic hurricane season.

Throughout his career, Warren has contributed to NBC Nightly News, Today and CBS Evening News. His field reporting has taken him across 44 states and into hurricanes, blizzards and other extreme weather environments. He has also flown aboard a NOAA hurricane hunter aircraft and reported live from the USS Bataan in the Atlantic. His assignments have included serving as a featured weather presenter at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo and reporting on the 2024 total solar eclipse.

Before joining national television, Warren worked in local newsrooms in California and Oregon, including KSBY-TV in San Luis Obispo and KTVZ-TV in Bend. He later joined KING 5 and Northwest Cable News in Seattle.

Warren holds a Master of Arts in Strategic Communications and a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcasting from Washington State University’s Edward R. Murrow School of Communication, as well as a Certificate in Broadcast Meteorology from Mississippi State University. He also studied psychology as an undergraduate and holds the American Meteorological Society Television Seal of Approval.