High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Allen "Bob" Case (December 16, 1939 June 19, 2008) was a meteorologist who worked for the National Weather Service (NWS) for 28 years. Over the course of his career, he worked in NWS various offices, developing a diverse background in various types of weather forecasting, including a lengthy stint as a hurricane forecaster. He is best known for inspiring the naming of the 1991 Perfect Storm as The Perfect Storm. Robert Case entered the United States Navy at the age of 17 in 1957, and served for 3 years. Thereafter, he went to college, and earned a Bachelors Degree in math/physics from Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania in 1965. During 1966, he took meteorology courses at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State). By 1967, he had joined the National Weather Service, and was posted to Anchorage, Alaska. The following year, he moved to Juneau, Alaska. In 1971, Case began work at NWS Headquarters near Washington, D. C.. The next year he completed coursework for his Master's degree from Penn State. In 1973, he worked again in Juneau, this time remaining there for two years.