Scanning the Skies: A History of Tornado Forecasting

by Marlene Bradford

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806133023
• ISBN13: 9780806133027
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"