Author: John Grant Fuller
Publisher: New York : Morrow
ISBN: 9780688065904
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
A minute-by-minute account, by a weather forecaster, of a tornado watch along the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, which resulted in tornadoes and the disappearance of 1300 houses with many people dead, hurt, missing, and homeless.
Tornado Watch #211
Author: John Grant Fuller
Publisher: New York : Morrow
ISBN: 9780688065904
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
A minute-by-minute account, by a weather forecaster, of a tornado watch along the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, which resulted in tornadoes and the disappearance of 1300 houses with many people dead, hurt, missing, and homeless.
Publisher: New York : Morrow
ISBN: 9780688065904
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
A minute-by-minute account, by a weather forecaster, of a tornado watch along the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, which resulted in tornadoes and the disappearance of 1300 houses with many people dead, hurt, missing, and homeless.
Storm Warning
Author: Nancy Mathis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743296605
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Veteran journalist Mathis has produced a compulsively readable account of one of the most terrible tornadoes in history--a mile-wide F5 twister--and the extraordinary people who kept it from becoming the deadliest.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743296605
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Veteran journalist Mathis has produced a compulsively readable account of one of the most terrible tornadoes in history--a mile-wide F5 twister--and the extraordinary people who kept it from becoming the deadliest.
Scanning the Skies
Author: Marlene Bradford
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133027
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Tornadoes, nature's most violent and unpredictable storms, descend from the clouds nearly one thousand times yearly and have claimed eighteen thousand American lives since 1880. However, the U.S. Weather Bureau--fearing public panic and believing tornadoes were too fleeting for meteorologists to predict--forbade the use of the word "tornado" in forecasts until 1938. Scanning the Skies traces the history of today's tornado warning system, a unique program that integrates federal, state, and local governments, privately controlled broadcast media, and individuals. Bradford examines the ways in which the tornado warning system has grown from meager beginnings into a program that protects millions of Americans each year. Although no tornado forecasting program existed before WWII, the needs of the military prompted the development of a severe weather warning system in tornado prone areas. Bradford traces the post-war creation of the Air Force centralized tornado forecasting program and its civilian counterpart at the Weather Bureau. Improvements in communication, especially the increasing popularity of television, allowed the Bureau to expand its warning system further. This book highlights the modern tornado watch system and explains how advancements during the latter half of the twentieth-century--such as computerized data collection and processing systems, Doppler radar, state-of-the-art television weather centers, and an extensive public education program--have resulted in the drastic reduction of tornado fatalities.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133027
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Tornadoes, nature's most violent and unpredictable storms, descend from the clouds nearly one thousand times yearly and have claimed eighteen thousand American lives since 1880. However, the U.S. Weather Bureau--fearing public panic and believing tornadoes were too fleeting for meteorologists to predict--forbade the use of the word "tornado" in forecasts until 1938. Scanning the Skies traces the history of today's tornado warning system, a unique program that integrates federal, state, and local governments, privately controlled broadcast media, and individuals. Bradford examines the ways in which the tornado warning system has grown from meager beginnings into a program that protects millions of Americans each year. Although no tornado forecasting program existed before WWII, the needs of the military prompted the development of a severe weather warning system in tornado prone areas. Bradford traces the post-war creation of the Air Force centralized tornado forecasting program and its civilian counterpart at the Weather Bureau. Improvements in communication, especially the increasing popularity of television, allowed the Bureau to expand its warning system further. This book highlights the modern tornado watch system and explains how advancements during the latter half of the twentieth-century--such as computerized data collection and processing systems, Doppler radar, state-of-the-art television weather centers, and an extensive public education program--have resulted in the drastic reduction of tornado fatalities.
PrairyErth
Author: William Least Heat-Moon
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547527470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
This New York Times bestseller by the author of Blue Highways is “a majestic survey of land and time and people in a single county of the Kansas plains” (Hungry Mind Review). William Least Heat-Moon travels by car and on foot into the core of our continent, focusing on the landscape and history of Chase County—a sparsely populated tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of central Kansas—exploring its land, plants, animals, and people until this small place feels as large as the universe. Called a “modern-day Walden” by the Chicago Sun-Times, PrairyErth is a journey through a place, through time, and into the human mind from the acclaimed author of Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road. “A sense of the American grain that will give [PrairyErth] a permanent place in the literature of our country.” —Paul Theroux, The New York Times
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547527470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
This New York Times bestseller by the author of Blue Highways is “a majestic survey of land and time and people in a single county of the Kansas plains” (Hungry Mind Review). William Least Heat-Moon travels by car and on foot into the core of our continent, focusing on the landscape and history of Chase County—a sparsely populated tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of central Kansas—exploring its land, plants, animals, and people until this small place feels as large as the universe. Called a “modern-day Walden” by the Chicago Sun-Times, PrairyErth is a journey through a place, through time, and into the human mind from the acclaimed author of Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road. “A sense of the American grain that will give [PrairyErth] a permanent place in the literature of our country.” —Paul Theroux, The New York Times
Tornado
Author: United States. National Weather Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tornadoes
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tornadoes
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Tornadoes, Nature's Most Violent Storms
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tornado warning systems
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tornado warning systems
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Tornado Preparedness Planning
Author: United States. National Weather Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tornadoes
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tornadoes
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Speaking With The Stars
Author: Bob Benson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 145687750X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
David Saint Hubbands (“This is Spinal Tap”) says it is a fi ne line between stupid and clever. This book is here to help you not cross that line but bridge the wider gap between yawn and smile or knowing nod. Presentations are written for the ear and so should the words we borrow from some of the best, brightest, funniest, and yes even most ordinary. Stars all! There are over 950 quotes you can and will choose to use. You will come back for ‘free refi lls’. These sound so good and so will you!
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 145687750X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
David Saint Hubbands (“This is Spinal Tap”) says it is a fi ne line between stupid and clever. This book is here to help you not cross that line but bridge the wider gap between yawn and smile or knowing nod. Presentations are written for the ear and so should the words we borrow from some of the best, brightest, funniest, and yes even most ordinary. Stars all! There are over 950 quotes you can and will choose to use. You will come back for ‘free refi lls’. These sound so good and so will you!
Tornadoes and Severe Storms Awareness Campaign Workbook
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Other People's Words
Author: Bob Benson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557769833
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557769833
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description