Professional Experience
Meteorologist, National Weather Correspondent, MMJ, Storm Chaser
AccuWeather
05/2021 to Current
Remote (Denver, CO)
- Reported on a wide variety of breaking weather events across the US, including but not limited to tornadoes, hurricanes, winter weather, wildfires, and other extreme weather events.
- Unofficially aired the network’s first live tornado event in August 2021 and have since aired over a dozen tornado events live, including a live standup in front of a Colorado tornado in August 2023 and 30-minutes, wall-to-wall, during a high-profile tornado event in Iowa in April 2024.
- Alerted in-house Meteorologists the morning of to growing severe weather/tornado threat in the Houston area in January 2023 and helped direct reporter ahead of a high profile tornado event.
- One-man-band, sometimes work with one additional person in the field, gathering elements, logistics, shoot and edit, as well as report in the field in extreme weather conditions under tight deadlines.
- Responsible for nowcasting and navigating to unfolding breaking weather events in real-time.
- Assist in severe weather stories, appearing as featured expert or providing content and insight.
- Pitch stories, gather elements, script, edit, produce and put graphics on weather related packages, often working from home.
- Made on-air debut in June 2021 after tornado touched down near my Colorado home less than two hours after closing.
- Greatly expanded in-house severe weather footage archive.
- DEMO REEL: Tony Laubach AccuWX 2023
- DEMO REEL: Tony Laubach AccuWX 2021-2022
- LIVE: Yuma, Colorado Tornado 2023
- COVERAGE: Ottumwa, IA Tornado Event 2023
- COVERAGE: Southern IL Total Eclipse 2024
- COVERAGE: Colorado Tornado History 2023
- COVERAGE: Record Colorado Snow 2024
- FUN: Tony Laubach’s Christmas Quiz 2024
- DEBUT: Tornado On Closing Day 2021
Broadcast Meteorologist, Weather Reporter, Storm Chaser
KAKE-TV
03/2018 to 5/2021
Wichita, KS
- Market’s only full time, professional storm chasing Meteorologist; “one-man-band” constantly delivering exclusive weather content for use on air and on various digital platforms often under extreme adverse field conditions under tight deadline via live streaming or FTP.
- Third Meteorologist in the Wichita TV-market to ever been nominated for an Emmy.
- Created and produced “Storm Saga Sunday” series on storm chasing and stories from my storm chasing career airing Sunday mornings and evenings.
- Helped launch the “Friday Football Blitz”, live weather hits from High School Football on Friday nights. Also shot the football game and edited highlights for the Blitz Highlight Show Friday nights after the 10PM newscast.
- Primary weekend morning weather anchor; often covered weekday mornings and weekend evening shifts (when not out on severe weather coverage). Responsible for producing weathercasts via WSI software.
- Set up at-home studio and presented weather live on-air from home during the Covid Pandemic in 2020.
- Made public appearances on station-sponsored events.
- COVERAGE: Major Winter Storm 2020
- WEATHERCAST: December 24, 2019 Winter
- REPORTER: Outside in Extreme Cold (2021)
- COVERAGE: Garden City Blizzard (2019)
- STUDIO: First KAKE Weathercast (2018)
- STUDIO: Final Goodbyes and Tributes (2021)
- COVERAGE: South KS Record Flooding (2018)
- COVERAGE: Kansas Major Snowstorm (2020)
- SPORTS: High School Football Reel (2020)
Weather Warrior, Photographer, Weekend Morning Meteorologist
WSIL-TV News 3
07/2013 to 3/2018
Carterville, IL
- Created and produced a seasonal weekly series of storm chasing packages airing during storm season called “Weather Warrior Wednesday”.
- Was station’s first official storm chaser, and was the go-to field Meteorologist on breaking severe weather events including tornadoes, major flooding, and winter weather.
- Tracked live and broke the first images during major tornado event in February 2017.
- Prepared and presented forecasts on-air for WSIL weekend morning show.
- Primary fill-in for weekend morning weather shows.
- Photographer for high school and NCAA sporting events throughout the year, often traveling long distances on the road and FTPing back highlight packages under deadline.
- Versatile in multiple utility roles, including associate producer, news photographer, weather reporter, breaking news coverage, MMJ, etc.
- Made public appearances on station-sponsored events.
- DEMO REEL: Tony Laubach 2017 Reel
- COVERAGE: Total Solar Eclipse 2017
- MMJ PACKAGE: Winter Car Prep (2017)
- MMJ PACKAGE: River-to-River Race (2017)
- WEATHER WARRIOR: Week 3 Episode (2016)
- WEATHER WARRIOR: Week 5 Episode (2015)
- SPORTS: Professional/Collegiate Demo (2018)
- SPORTS: High School Sports Demo (2018)
- STUDIO DEBUT: First Ever Weathercast (2016)
Storm Chaser, Weather Producer (Independent Contractor)
KMGH 7News
08/2007 to 2/2013
Denver, CO
- Primary weather videographer and featured talent in award-winning TV special, “Tracking Twisters”.
- Captured severe weather content for multiple digital/on-air platforms.
- Created, coded and developed a snow and ski report web page for the station website.
- Coded several in-house web-based applications to expedite show production.
- Assisted Meteorologists with forecasting for weather shows.
- Occasionally appeared in various on-air roles/cameos.
Education & Academic Experience
Master of Science: Professional Media & Media Management
Southern Illinois University
Graduated 5/2016
Carbondale, IL
- Degree Emphasis in New Media/Journalism
Graduate Teaching Assistant
- TV News Field Production (2 Semesters)
Bachelor of Science: Meteorology & Technical Communication
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Graduated 5/2009
Denver, CO
- Interactive Media Concentration
- Mathematics Minor
Media Productions
“Storm Stories: The Next Chapter” Twin Twisters – The Weather Channel (2019)
- Featured Meteorologist/Storm Chaser
“Daily Planet” Forces of Nature Episode – Discovery Channel Canada (2013)
- Featured Meteorologist
“Tracking Twisters” – KMGH 7News Denver (2011)
- Award-winning TV Special
- One of Several Featured Meteorologists
- Field Producer, Videographer
“Storm Chasers” – Discovery Channel (2009-2011)
- Featured Meteorologist and Researcher w/ Team TWISTEX
- Principal Videographer for Team TWISTEX
“Into The Tornado” – National Geographic Channel (2008)
- Featured Storm Researcher w/ TWISTEX
“Twister Sisters”, Episode 6 – Women’s Entertainment (2008)
- Featured Independent Storm Chaser
Relevant Professional Skills
- Forecasted and documented severe weather professionally and academically for over 25 years, including over 20 years of Great Plains forecasting and five years in Illinois/Midwest. Witnessed over 400 tornadoes and driven over 500,000 miles.
- Severe Weather/Tornado Researcher with TWISTEX; Mesonet Team Leader responsible for taking mobile measurements of RFD region of supercell storms, often in close proximity to tornadoes. Helped author several peer-reviewed papers, and data was used in dozens of other peer-reviewed publications.
- Edited and delivered ENG weather videos via FTP and Dropbox as a freelance video stringer since 2003 and have generated over $200K in video sales from 2013-2020 in a highly competitive and over-saturated weather video market.
- Utilized weather software and mobile apps such as Radar Omega, Radarscope, GRLevelx, Baron, WSI and several web-based weather forecasting sites for work in the field and in the studio.
- Engage over 30,000 collective followers across several personal and professional social media outlets, including Facebook and Twitter. Grow and maintain a YouTube channel with nearly 800 videos, including produced pieces featuring my library of content.
