Bob Sheets

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{{Short description|American meteorologist (born 1937)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1937|6|7}}

| birth_place = Fairmount, Indiana, U.S.

| education = Fairmount High School, Fairmount, Indiana, U.S.

| alma_mater =Ball State University
University of Oklahoma

| occupation = Former director of the National Hurricane Center; meteorologist

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Robert Chester Sheets (born June 7, 1937) is an American meteorologist who served as the director of the National Hurricane Center from 1987 to 1995. He was born in Marion, Indiana.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l4RUAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Sheets,+Robert+Chester+%22 |title=American Men & Women of Science: Q-S – Google Books |year=2003 |publisher=R.R. Bowker |isbn=9780787665296 |via=Google Books|access-date=December 10, 2011}}

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,{{cite book | isbn=037570390X | title=Hurricane Watch: Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth | last1=Williams | first1=Jack | last2=Sheets | first2=Bob | date=July 31, 2001 | publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing }} on hurricane information and stories.