Bob Sheets

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Bob Sheets
Born June 7, 1937 (1937-06-07) (age 74)
Marion, Indiana
Alma mater Ball State University
University of Oklahoma
Occupation Former director of the National Hurricane Center
meteorologist

Robert Chester Sheets (born June 7, 1937) is a meteorologist who served as the director of the National Hurricane Center from 1987 to 1995. He was born in Marion, Indiana.[1] 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 1995, 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 0-375-70390-X 

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


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