Larry F. Wilson (born 8 December 1937) is an American meteorologist who specializes in the forecasting of severe convective storms.

Upon completing the U. S. Air Force’s Officer’s Training School, Wilson served at Pope Field, North Carolina.

While there, he avoided injury when a Viet Cong bomb detonated in a Saigon theatre frequented by Americans.

Upon returning to the U.S. in 1964, Wilson was assigned to the Air Force’s Military Weather Warning Center (MWWC), then in Kansas City, Missouri, where he worked alongside Colonel Robert C. Miller (see first image below).

Wilson joined the “SELS” (Severe Local Storms) unit of the NSSFC as an assistant forecaster in 1969 and was selected as meteorologist-in-charge of the Weather Service’s newly formed Regional Warning Coordination Center in 1973.