Anne Campolongo, a Cincinnati-area native and Emmy-winning meteorologist, is returning home to join the WKRC Weather Authority team this month, the station’s owner Sinclair announced on Monday.

Campolongo moves to WKRC (Channel 12, CBS) from Hearst-owned KCCI (Channel 8, CBS) in Des Moines, where she earned a regional Emmy Awards for her team’s work on the EF-4 tornado that struck the town of Greenfield last year.

Before her time in Iowa, Campolongo worked in Portland and Medford, Oregon, covering a range of severe weather events across the Pacific Northwest.

“Anne brings a tremendous amount of experience covering all kinds of extreme weather to our Weather Authority Team,” said Franco Gentile, Vice President and General Manager of WKRC, also known as Local 12. “Her passion for weather and her passion for her hometown of Cincinnati makes her a perfect fit.”

A Loveland native, Campolongo graduated from Ursuline Academy in Blue Ash and earned dual degrees in journalism and meteorology from Ohio University. She previously interned at WKRC’s “Good Morning Cincinnati” in 2013, marking her new role as a homecoming to the newsroom where she began her career.

Campolongo said the opportunity to return to Cincinnati and work for a station with deep local roots was one she couldn’t pass up. “I’ve been away from Cincinnati for a long time, and when home calls, it’s hard not to answer,” she said. “I’m thrilled to join a team as well-respected and established as The Weather Authority. This is a full-circle moment for me.”

Campolongo will join Chief Meteorologist John Gumm and meteorologists Tera Blake, Eric DoBroka and Paul Poteet.