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Author Smith, Mike (Michael Ray), 1952-

Title Warnings : the true story of how science tamed the weather / Mike Smith.

Imprint Austin, Tex. : Greenleaf Book Group Press, c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 FSCC Non-Fiction  551.63 Sm511w 2010    ---  Available
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  551.63 Smi    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 286 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Note Includes chapters on the Udall, Kansas tornado of 1955 and the Greensburg tornado of 2007.
Contents Phantom accidents -- The Ruskin Heights tornado -- No one ever knew it was coming -- "Nice people, but odd" -- The government gets in gear -- The "town that died in its sleep" -- The Paul Revere of Grandview Junior High -- The end of the beginning -- Storm chasers -- Tragedy -- Fujita -- The day TV weather grew up -- St. Louis and the holiday weather hotline -- The microburst mystery -- Delta 191 : why weren't they warned? -- The Delta trail -- Weatherdata -- America gets dopplerized -- Hurricane Andrew -- Katrina, part one -- Katrina, part two : inaction in action -- Katrina, part three : murder by bureaucracy -- Greensburg : capstone of the modern warning system -- Where there's life, there's hope.
Source NBK 5/12 PPL
Subject Smith, Mike (Michael Ray), 1952-
Weather forecasting -- United States -- History.
Meteorology -- United States -- History.
Weather forecasting -- Technological innovations -- United States.
Meteorological services -- Technological innovations -- United States.
Tornadoes -- United States.
Meteorologists -- Biography.
ISBN 9781608320349
1608320340
Standard No. DON glb00000128
CDX 12177340

 
    
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