Robert Chester Sheets (born June 7, 1937) is a
meteorologist
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who served as the director of the
National Hurricane Center from 1987 to 1995. He was born in
Marion, Indiana.
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
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network affiliates in Florida. He has also co-authored
bookon hurricane information and stories.
References
Books
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External links
National Hurricane Center
American meteorologists
Living people
University of Oklahoma alumni
Ball State University alumni
1937 births
Scientists from Indiana
National Weather Service people
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