Scanning the Skies
Marlene Bradford
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Scanning the Skies

A History of Tornado Forecasting

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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 whi...