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Mathis, Nancy.
Storm Warning :
The Story of a Killer Tornado /
Nancy Mathis.
New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2007.
x, 237 p :
illustrations ;
25 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-237).
Nature's atom bomb -- A meteorological star -- A tornado forecast -- Searching for clues -- The tornado detective -- Priority one -- Hiding from the bear -- Inside the bear's cage -- Mr. Tornado sees his first -- A twister's journey -- Vortex -- The twister's aftermath -- Seeing the winds -- A tornado's grip.
Veteran journalist Mathis has produced a compulsively readable account of one of the most terrible tornadoes in history--a mile-wide F5 twister--and the extraordinary people who kept it from becoming the deadliest.
20070617.
Tornadoes
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
History
20th century.
Tornado warning systems
Oklahoma.
Natural disaster warning systems
United States.
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