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A COME OUT AND a crock I guess even stand it
and then have this bring over one hundred people on a slow
down. Thank the X.L.
and Keep Russianness southwest side
where most of them come from I think it's likely the odds are way against it even
in weather like this. I've never seen one but there's always a chance.
Whether people when they show a tornado will work with them.
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operators operators as numbers
and to call on the on the weather bureau main to one hundred.
This is rather the critical one of my race the with pumping station a faster way
going the carousel bomber such.
Yes that day.
Ellen Villa was struck by a tornado most violent type of storm on earth.
Normally we can expect about one hundred eighty tornadoes each year in the United
States they can occur anywhere in the nation.
However the greatest number occur in the flat land areas east of the Rocky
Mountains each individual tornado is a violent local vortex in the atmosphere
the tornadoes parent is up under the cloud
and the Bartek suddenly descend to rotate wildly along the earth in an upward
spiraling motion the Bunnell consist of air and mustard to which dust mud
and debris are added by the in rushing wind estimated to be rotating at speeds as
high as five hundred miles an hour tornado is the usual a funnel shaped although
they may take the bomb of a rope an elephant trunk or a column.
Although its sweep is generally only about four hundred yards wide
and up to sixteen miles long a tornado's destructive power is appalling strong
buildings are reduced to rubble automobiles lifted
and flung through the air great trees whirled about like toothpicks the creation of
a partial vacuum within the vortex and caused buildings literally to explode
when the funnel passes close to them.
No one knows all the facts about tornadoes
but meteorologists can detect the thunderstorm conditions
that give birth to them the presence of layers of air of contrast in temperature
moisture density and wind flow.
Such combinations of conditions may generate a tornado.
Usually this does not happen but when the clouds become unusual it's pressing.
It is wise to take every possible precaution that calls for for warning.
And it is the responsibility of the United States weather bureau to provide the
public with information regarding the possibility of severe local storms including
tornadoes such advance notice can save many lives
and even help reduce property damage to forecast the development of dangerous
conditions.
The weather bureau has established the severe local Storm Warning Center at Kansas
City.
The staff which mans this office specializes in forecasting storm conditions not
only for the Kansas City area
but we're all parts of the country local conditions on which these men based their
predictions are fed into the center constantly by thousands of observation posts
across the continent from the local weather bureau offices come reports of surface
weather conditions upper air conditions which may be very different from those on
the ground are checked by weather balloons.
Radar stations scan cloud formations at varying out at the Woods to detect dense
Meister patterns the beginning of bad weather as a rule specially equipped Air
Force
and Navy weather reconnaissance planes five far beyond the continental limits to
secure information on incoming weather all of these observations
are funneled into the Kansas City Center along with nationwide weather charts
prepared at the Bureau's.
Analysis Center in Washington and transmitted by facsimile.
Piecing together all this information.
The staff repairs a detailed analysis of areas in which violence Coraline's
hailstorms and other day.
Drift weather conditions are likely to occur where a tornado made develop
but to see it if it actually does develop the weather bureau needs the help of the
other vital link in the network the volunteer observer group in Elmdale for example
the head of the local weather bureau
that organized an observer network two years before the tornado struck the first
purpose of the observer corps was to spot actual tornado clouds
and advise the Weather Bureau of their location
and movement another AM was to inform the public about safe behavior during storms
about avoiding farls rumors and panic in the Elmdale network.
Trained observers were stationed about two miles apart
and with the heaviest concentration southwest of the city all were pledged to watch
any questionable whether the reports from play to the weather bureau
and a dangerous looking stone one of them was Jesse Brown whose farm was located
southwest of Elm ville.
One warm muggy day in May The forecasters in the Kansas City center became
concerned about conditions in an area to the southwest they is man have a heavy
responsibility. They cannot needlessly alarm the public.
But when loss of life may be possible their duty is clear. In this case.
They felt that severe storm activity might be expected to the southwest.
In an area one hundred sixty miles long and eighty miles wide.
The weather bureau office responsible for distributing warnings in
that area was Elmdale the district forecaster in Kansas City immediately called
the Elmdale weather bureau. Pop a seven in the arrival Friday afternoon.
It is a severe weather forecast was issued for the Elmdale area.
All public outlets were by police radio and television stations
and news networks
and the Elmdale observer network was alerted this
was not a tornado warning its purpose was merely to alert the public to the
possibility of a tornado occurring somewhere in the own bill area
to bring you the severe weather forecast issued by the United States Weather Bureau
Elmdale there are indications
that locally severe thunderstorms will southward back to the west border of all
within this area
and perhaps likely acted calm scattered thunderstorms they had learned from the
networks information programs that this alert.
Not only that storm conditions existed
that no tornado had yet developed they knew
that experienced observers were at their stations watching that if and
when a tornado develops they would be warned.
So all they want about their business as usual.
Except that practically every radio and T.V.
Set in the area was turned on mid afternoon towering Thunderhead
and appear to the sick play greenies black color.
On Jesse Brown much Farm heavy rain was falling
and he came indoors to watch from his kitchen then
at three twenty six
his brother with chordal about a mile east with eleven station when Tommy station.
This recommended a listing.
This was a promise call gave Elmdale nearly thirty minutes to get ready. Our.
And his assistants issued an immediate tornado warning to our communities in the
path of the storm.
You know the one from the running plays the exact location of the tornado was
flashed to the nearest radar station which began to practice
what they saw were echoes from a number of storms over a radius of many miles.
But most important the peculiar S. Shaped echo of the tornado cloud from a profit.
Now they could follow its path and report any change of speed or direction.
Meanwhile warned by a television radio
and telephone the public followed tornado safety rules those with storm cellars
have the best protection people in open country sought to chose
or to evade lying flat in a depression will guard against one of the greatest
hazards flying debris as deadly as shrapnel in the
homes doors and windows on the north
and east sides were opened to help reduce damage to the building
families took shelter in the southwest corner of their home in basements if they
have them.
In apartments office buildings in factories able to prearrange positions against
inside walls on the lower floors
and in school because of practice drills the pupils went to their assigned places
on the lower floors away from windows in a large room very.
Within minutes the people of Elm they all had taken shelter there was no panic
or there was an embalmed community
minutes later the tornado roared into the city.
Then it was gone.
As suddenly as it came the wind shifted in the air cleared over a scene of
devastation property damage total millions of dollars but no lives were lost
and there were few injuries.
Without the weather bureau warning without the local storm warning
that were without the calm cooperation of an informed public the toll might have
them. Cragin play high.
Nothing can prevent a tornado or any other storm
but the United States weather bureau is predicting their approach with ever
increasing accuracy a large part of the tornado safety program is in
the hands of the public every community in an area subject to these storms should
have an active local Warning Network.
If you live in such an area support your local network.
If you don't have one start with.
The nearest weather bureau office will furnish detailed information
and assistance such self-reliance may save the lives of your family
your friends and your neighbors.
If you are ever in the path of a tornado.