Bob Sheets

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Bob Sheets

Robert C. Sheets is a meteorologist who served as the director of the National Hurricane Center from 1987 to 1995. He is well remembered for numerous interviews given from the Hurricane Center during Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Sheets also was a member and eventual director in Project Storm Fury, an attempt to modify hurricanes with silver iodide. Since retiring in 95, Sheets has continued his relationship with the media, becoming a special-situation hurricane analyst with ABC network affiliates in Florida. He has also co-authored a book on hurricane information and stories.

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Books

  • Williams, Jack; Sheets, Bob (July 2001), Hurricane Watch: Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth, Vintage, ISBN 037570390X 

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Preceded by
Neil Frank
Director of the National Hurricane Center
1987–1995
Succeeded by
Bob Burpee