Today we take accurate weather reports and severe storm warnings for granted, but even 60 years ago there was hesitation in issuing a tornado warning. Storm Kings chronicles the early struggles in experimentation and the resulting, often flawed, theories. The conflicts between the U.S. Army Signal Corps and the Weather Bureau regarding administration, data collection, and of course, funding force the reader to wonder how they found the time to issue even the most basic forecasts. The history of meteorologists and their ideas encompass a wide range of very colorful personalities and plans (starting huge fires to make it rain, using dynamite to collapse funnel clouds). Sandlin touches on tornadoes large and small whose damage and eyewitness accounts helped improve weather forecasting.
An "active, severe" storm season has been predicted for 2013...
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