About khou

The nation’s foremost authority on hurricanes and tropical storms, Dr. Neil Frank serves as chief meteorologist for KHOU-TV, and anchors weathercasts weekdays at 5, 6 and 10pm. Dr. Frank joined KHOU-TV in June 1987. Prior to beginning his television career, Dr. Frank was director of the National Hurricane Center in Florida for 13 years, where he was the key figure in directing severe tropical weather information to meteorologists and media across the country.

His career began in the United States Air Force where he trained as a weather officer. After the USAF, he returned to Florida State University for graduate study. In 1961, Dr. Frank joined the staff of the National Hurricane Center as a forecaster and was named director in 1974. During his tenure, Dr. Frank had several international meteorological assignments, including serving as chairman of the International Hurricane Committee that coordinated the hurricane warning procedures for Central and North American countries. He was also a member of an international tropical meteorological experiment conducted off the coast of Africa in 1974.

Dr. Frank has served on the boards of numerous professional associations. He was elected to a three-year term on the council of the American Meteorological Society, the Professional Society for Meteorologists in 1989. Early in 1987, Dr. Frank’s testimony and expertise were called upon when he testified before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. He has published a variety of papers on tropical meteorology for professional publications and has been featured in such national magazines as Time, Newsweek and National Geographic. Frank was awarded first place in the 1989 Texas Press Awards competition for Best Weathercast.

A native of Kansas, Dr. Frank has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Southwestern College in Kansas and a master’s and doctoral degree in meteorology from Florida State University. He is married and has three grown children.

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