Product Description: Tornadoes are among nature's most destructive and terrifying phenomena. Twisters have left their wake of destruction throughout the United States and the world, and The Tornado describes some of the most bizarre--houseboats sailing through the air; cars flown to a landing half a cornfield away; an entire house lifted and demolished, leaving only a divan and the uninjured family seated on it...read more

The Tri-State Tornado is a gripping account of the worst tornado disaster in American history. Claiming 689 lives during a three-hour rampage across Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18, 1925, the storm had one of the longest uninterrupted paths (219 miles) and one of the widest (up to one mile) of any recorded tornado. Its continuous energy was so extreme that it completely obliterated several small towns in its path. Although the fatality count was nearly that of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, with the exception of meteorologists and residents of the affected area, few had ever heard of this catastrophe until this book's initial release in 1992.The Tri-State Tornado reconstructs the tragedy, using vivid eyewitness accounts of fourteen survivors who lived along the tornado's path from the Missouri Ozarks to southwestern Indiana. The clarity with which they recall that day in their lives over sixty years earlier will give readers the unsettling feeling that the tornado struck days, not decades, ago.

Product Description: Books on almost every conceivable type of natural disaster have been written and widely read, except on the subject of tornadoes. "Tornado! 84 Minutes, 94 Lives" is one of the first detailed, book length studies of this type of calamity...read more

Product Description: Book by England, Gary A.

Veteran tornado chasers explore the facts and myths surrounding nature's greatest fury, relate the experiences of people who survived tornadoes, and offer safety advice. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Enthralling, informative and invaluable for those who want to know more about tornados and how to protect their families against the awesome and destructive power of these storms. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A guide to tornado formation and lifecycle also covers such topics as forecasting, wind speeds, tornado myths, tornado safety, risks, and records, along with accounts of the deadliest tornadoes in the United States.

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Traces the events surrounding the 1966 F-5 tornado of central Mississippi, describing the experiences of its survivors while noting the disaster's ongoing emotional, economic, and physical impact. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: This informative book has been newly revised in light of the devastating tornadoes that have swept across the United States over the last few years. 2008 was particularly fierce with clusters of tornadoes forming every month in the first half of the year.

A close-up view of nature's most violent forces at work in America's heartland follows a colorful band of storm chasers over the course of a single tornado season, in a study of the effects of devastating weather, American eccentrics at work, and the commerce of catastrophe. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: Explore, analyze, and elaborate on information you extract using ArcGIS software with EXPLORING TROPICAL CYCLONES: GIS INVESTIGATIONS FOR THE EARTH SCIENCES. This interactive guides letsyou tap the power of the ArcGIS software to explore, manipulate, and analyze large data sets...read more

An account of the May 1999 tornado outbreak in Oklahoma describes the particular devastation wrought by an F5 twister whose winds were the fastest ever recorded, drawing on first-person interviews to recount the experiences of its victims.

Focuses on the Limestone County, Alabama, lives altered and lost in April 1974, when more than one hundred tornadoes--six of them of the most powerful 'F5' category of storms--swept across thirteen states, killing and wounding hundreds of people and causing billions of dollars worth of damage.

Product Description: Tornadoes are the most violent, magnificent, and utterly unpredictable storms on earth, reaching estimated wind speeds of 300 mph and leaving swaths of destruction in their wake. In Tornado Alley, Howard Bluestein draws on two decades of experience chasing and photographing tornadoes across the Plains to present a fascinating historical account of the study of tornadoes and the great thunderstorms that spawn them...read more

Product Description: It was April 3, 1974. Crime was soaring. Unemployment and inflation were out of control. A costly war had just come to its demoralizing end, and an unpopular President was on his way out of office. Then, over a sixteen-hour period, nature stepped forward with its own display of mayhem: an unprecedented outbreak of 148 tornadoes, covering thirteen states in the heart of the country, from Michigan to Mississippi...read more

Product Description: Warner Bros. and Universal City Studios, Inc.'s major motion picture thriller Twister has stormed through cinemas nationwide. Twister will leave in its wake tremendous interest in one of nature's most dangerous phenomena. This book includes true stories of survivors, a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the movie, an 8-page photo insert, and much more...read more