Bob Sheets
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National Hurricane Center
The National Hurricane Center , located at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, is the division of the National Weather Service responsible for tracking and predicting weather systems within the tropics between the Prime Meridian and the 140th meridian west poleward to the 30th...
from 1987 to 1995. He is well remembered for numerous interviews given from the Hurricane Center during Hurricane Andrew
Hurricane Andrew
Hurricane Andrew was the third Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the United States, after the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 and Hurricane Camille in 1969. Andrew was the first named storm and only major hurricane of the otherwise inactive 1992 Atlantic hurricane season...
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 95, Sheets has continued his relationship with the media, becoming a special-situation hurricane analyst with ABC
American Broadcasting Company
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network affiliates in Florida. He has also co-authored a book on hurricane information and stories.