Neil Frank Biography
Neil Laverne Frank is an American meteorologist and former head of the National Hurricane Center in Florida. Frank served in the United States Air Force, where he got weather officer training, before beginning his PhD studies in meteorology. In 1961, he started working as a forecaster at the National Hurricane Center.
Age
Neil was born on 11 September 1931, in Kansas, United States of America. He is 92 years old as of September 2023.
Education- Family
Frank attended Southwestern College in the vicinity of Wellington, Kansas, where he was raised. Following military training in weather forecasting and his 1953 bachelor’s degree in chemistry, he attended Florida State University to obtain his master’s and doctoral degrees in meteorology.
Wife- Married
We don’t have much information about He’s past relationship and any previous engaged.
Career
He started off at the National Hurricane Center as a forecaster. In 1974, he was named director of the Center. In addition to his role as director, Dr. Frank was the head of the International Hurricane Committee, which was responsible for coordinating hurricane alerts throughout North America. In addition, he took part in meteorological research offshore Africa. He was asked to appear before the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in 1987 as an expert witness. Frank is the NHC director with the longest tenure as of 2018.When hurricanes loomed, Frank’s position as director of the National Hurricane Center kept him in the headlines. He frequently appeared in interviews with CBS news presenter Dan Rather at the time, who had covered multiple hurricanes in his early career.
After the Brownsville Weather Center in Texas lost all of its traditional communications lines during Hurricane Allen in 1980, Frank was able to get in touch with it directly through an amateur radio station. The amateur radio station that ran on batteries was the last remaining means of communication between Brownsville and the Hurricane Center. Frank left the National Hurricane Center in June 1987 and started working for KHOU-TV, a CBS station in Houston. His reports as Director of the National Hurricane Center, especially those from Hurricane Alicia, which made landfall close to Houston in 1983, had already made him well-known to the people of Houston.
Frank won multiple accolades during his more than 20 years as the television station’s lead meteorologist. Frank declared in December 2007 that he will leave KHOU-TV as a broadcaster the following year. Frank declared on Monday, May 19, 2008, on the 10 PM news that he will retire at the end of May. He would still cover hurricanes and special weather projects for the station. As a signatory to An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming, Frank affirms that “Earth and its ecosystems are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting; they are created by God’s intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence.”
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.