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"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 postwar 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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tornado warning, Storm Predicition Center, tornado watch, Windhozen, Tornadoes, Tornado, Tornado warning systems, Wettervorhersage, Weersverwachtingen, Weather forecasting, GeschichtePeople
John Finley, Theodore FujitaPlaces
Oklahoma City, Kansas CityTimes
1880-1995Showing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Scanning the Skies: A History of Tornado Forecasting
2024, University of Oklahoma Press
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0806194766 9780806194769
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Scanning the Skies: A History of Tornado Forecasting
March 2001, University of Oklahoma Press
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0806133023 9780806133027
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"April and May 1997, peak tornado season in the southern Mississippi Valley and Texas, had been relatively quiet, but when a weak cold front pushed toward central Texas on May 27, the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman, Oklahoma, issued Tornado Watch 338 for a large area of the state effective from 1:15 P.M. until 7:00 P.M. central daylight time."
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This book is a historical account of tornado watches and tornado warning systems throughout the United States from their inception during World War II through the 1990s. It also includes theories of tornado formation from Native American tribes, early scientists, and more recent scientific investigations. The book attempts to show the correlation between the improvements in warnings and the decrease in tornado deaths in the United States.
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