Bob Sheets

Robert Chester Sheets is an American meteorologist 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 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, Hurricane Watch: Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth, on hurricane information and stories.