Tornado Forecasting And Severe Storm Warning

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tornado Forecasting and Severe Storm Warning written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Folger
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437987540
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Severe Thunderstorms and Tornadoes in the United States written by Peter Folger and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-10 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes affect communities across the U.S. every year, causing fatalities, destroying property and crops, and disrupting businesses. Tornadoes are the most destructive products of severe thunderstorms. Damages from violent tornadoes seem to be increasing, similar to the trend for other natural hazards in part due to changing population, demographics, and more weather-sensitive infrastructure and some analysts indicate that losses of $1 billion or more from single tornado events are becoming more frequent. Insurance industry analysts state that tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, and related weather events have caused nearly 57%, on average, of all insured catastrophe losses in the U.S. in any given year since 1953. Contents of this report: (1) Overview; (2) Issues for Congress: A Focus on Local Warnings and Forecasts for the National Weather Service; Mitigation: The National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program; Reauthorizing the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program; Climate Change and Severe Weather: The April and May 2011 Tornados: A Link to Climate Change?; Other Factors Contributing to Risk From Tornadoes; Forecasting and Warning: The Role of the National Weather Service; Summary and Conclusions; Appendix: Risk from Severe Thunderstorms and Tornadoes. Map and tables. This is a print on demand report.

Author : Marlene Bradford
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806133027
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scanning the Skies written by Marlene Bradford and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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 post-war 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.

Author : United States. Office of Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Severe Local Storms Operations Plan written by United States. Office of Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Office of Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Severe Local Storms Operation Plan written by United States. Office of Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Severe Local Storms Operations Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tornado Warnings and Weather Service Modernization written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tornadoes and Severe Storms Awareness Campaign Workbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Environment
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tornado Forecasting Technology written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Environment and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tornadoes written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: