Robert Chester Sheets (born June 7, 1937) is a
meteorologist who served as the director of the
National Hurricane Center
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is the division of the United States' NOAA/National Weather Service responsible for tracking and predicting tropical weather systems between the Prime Meridian and the 140th meridian west poleward to the 30 ...
from 1987 to 1995. He was born in
Marion, Indiana
Marion is a city in Grant County, Indiana, United States. The population was 29,948 as of the 2010 United States Census. The city is the county seat of Grant County. It is named for Francis Marion, a brigadier general from South Carolina in the ...
.
He is well remembered for numerous interviews given from the Hurricane Center during
Hurricane Andrew
Hurricane Andrew was a very powerful and destructive Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that struck the Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana in August 1992. It is the most destructive hurricane to ever hit Florida in terms of structures damaged ...
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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ABC or abc may also refer to:
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* American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster
** Disney–ABC Television ...
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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