Bob Sheets

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Bob Sheets

Born	(1937-06-07) June 7, 1937 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.

References

↑ American Men & Women of Science: Q-S - Google Books. Books.google.ca. Retrieved 2011-12-10.

Books

Williams, Jack; Sheets, Bob (July 2001), Hurricane Watch: Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth, Vintage, ISBN 0-375-70390-X

External links

National Hurricane Center

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

Persondata
Name	Sheets, Bob
Alternative names
Short description	American meteorologist
Date of birth	June 7, 1937
Place of birth	Marion, Indiana
Date of death
Place of death

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