The Minneapolis Tornadoes, May 6, 1965: notes on the warning process.

By:

Adams, David

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University of Delaware. Disaster Research Center

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 15 SEP 1965Description: 27p., 19 refsReport number: OCD-PS-64-46; DRC-RR-16; Institutional/Corporate Body

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The paper focuses on the disaster warnings given in Minneapolis, St Paul on the night of May 6, 1965, when a series of destructive tornadoes struck in the northwestern suburbs. The Minneapolis experience suggest that is is possible to place too much confidence in the mechanical elements of a warning system. Rather more important was the human system - the staff of the Weather Bureau and the personnel of the Twin Cities radio stations. No mechanical system, no matter how sophisticated, appears at present capable of replacing human contact in this process

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