Storm kings : the untold history of America's first tornado chasers / Lee Sandlin.
Sandlin, Lee.
2013
QC955 .S26 2013 (Mapit)
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Title
Storm kings : the untold history of America's first tornado chasers / Lee Sandlin.
Author
Sandlin, Lee.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780307378521
0307378527
Publication Details
New York : Pantheon Books, c2013.
Language
English
Description
xxv, 266 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number
QC955 .S26 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
551.55/3092273
Summary
A riveting tale of the weather's most vicious monster--the supercell tornado--that recreates the origins of meteorology, and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists who helped change America.
Note
Map on lining papers.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Introduction : Ghost riders
Prologue : The pillar in the storm
pt. 1. The thunder house
The electricians
A little more of the marvelous
To treat Master Franklin
pt. 2. The storm war
The so-called tornado
The philosophy of storms
Under the map
One dead, one exhausted, one converted
The finger of God
pt. 3. Red wind and tornado green
The great American desert
The night watch
Premonitory symptoms
Violent local storms
How to escape
The desert is no more
The book of failure
An awful commotion
pt. 4. The mystery of severe storms
Canvas and cellophane
The unfriendly sky
Visible effects of the invisible
Epilogue : The wild hunt.

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