Early Life and Career Before 1997
Daniel Corbett was born in Dagenham, Greater London, and spent his early life living in Billericay, Essex, before moving with his family to New York in 1974. Corbett grew up in Smithtown, New York, where he graduated from high school in 1985. He earned his BSc degree in Meteorology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1990, and moved on to work for Universal Weather and Aviation in New York and Houston, Texas. Here he undertook weather forecasting for corporate clients, energy companies, the aviation industry and ski resorts amongst others. Corbett's television career began in 1995, when he worked for WCFT-TV in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He then moved onto KWTX-TV in Waco, Texas where his English accent proved a big hit with viewers. While he was working for KWTX, one of America's biggest tornadoes, an F5, hit close to Waco, and Dan made a name for himself by correctly predicting that the tornado would, contrary to earlier forecasts, miss the city itself.
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