Significant tornadoes, 1680-1991.

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: St. Johnsbury, Vt. : The Tornado Project of Environmental Films, 1993Description: xviii, 1326 p. : illISBN:

1879362031

Subject(s):

tornado -- statistics

DDC classification:

551.5530973

Contents:

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	551.5530973 SIG (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		006396031

"This material is based upon work supported by the NAtional Science Foundation under grant no. BCS-8317738" -- t.p. verso

At head of cover title: A chronology and analysis of events

Includes index

Introduction; Counting and defining tornadoes; Tornado statistics; Outbreaks; Tornado forms and types; Other natural vortices; Tornado forecasting; Tornado risk; Wind speeds; Downbursts; Hurricane-spawned tornadoes; Other countries; Oddities and myths; Fujita tornado intensity scale; The project; F0/F1 tornadoes; Documenting with newspapers; Unlisted or 'missing' tornadoes; Differences of opinion; Early documentation periods; Trends; Distribution of significant tornadoes; Risk to property; Path maps and tabular listings

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