Warnings
The True Story of How Science Tamed the Weather
Austin, Tex. : Greenleaf Book Group Press, [2010]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 286 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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.
Subjects:
Smith, Mike (Michael Ray), 1952-
Weather forecasting -- Technological innovations -- United States.
Meteorological services -- Technological innovations -- United States.
Tornadoes -- United States.
Meteorology -- United States -- History.
Weather forecasting -- United States -- History.
Meteorologists -- Biography.
Smith, Mike (Michael Ray), 1952-
Weather forecasting -- Technological innovations -- United States.
Meteorological services -- Technological innovations -- United States.
Tornadoes -- United States.
Meteorology -- United States -- History.
Weather forecasting -- United States -- History.
Meteorologists -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781608320349
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SCIENCE Weather Smi | Eastover | Nonfiction | In |