Based on a personal computer, the system contains 30,000 small audio cuts of every possible weather condition or bulletin information that can be spoken.
During the 1980s Churchill provided weather forecasting services to a number of Hollywood movie productions filmed in and around the Dubuque area, including George S. Blackwell's Take This Job and Shove It.
This movie as released originally included a scene inserted by the producer after Churchill requested a screen credit for his services.
Churchill was married in the late 1980s to Rita Daniels-Churchill, a close relative to Preston Daniels and Robert Wright.
He retired to the Dominican Republic in 2001, and in 2016 was sentenced in absentia to 12 months in federal prison for tax evasion for failing to report revenue for Weatheradio and Virtual Voice Technologies.