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Author:
Smith, Mike (Michael Ray), 1952-
Title:
Warnings : the true story of how science tamed the weather / Mike Smith.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher:
Greenleaf Book Group Press,
Copyright Date:
c2010
Description:
286 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Weather forecasting--United States--History.
Meteorology--United States--History.
Weather forecasting--Technological innovations--United States.
Meteorological services--Technological innovations--United States.
Tornadoes--United States.
Smith, Mike--(Michael Ray),--1952-
Meteorologists--Biography.
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.
ISBN:
1608320340
9781608320349
OCLC:
(OCoLC)491902239
LCCN:
2010920227
Locations:
BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)
FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)
XSPE157 -- Atlantic Public Library (Atlantic)
KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)
CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)
AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)
WAPD715 -- Sheldon Public Library (Sheldon)

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