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	Storm Spotting and Public Awareness
		The Saragosa tornado of 22 May 1987 is indicated on the figure, even though it is not included in the regression because it failed to meet the aforementioned criteria (the number of fatalities was too low to qualify).
		Increasingly, tornado fatalities are related to bad luck, where actions that normally would suffice to save lives are not sufficient (as in the Jarrell, Texas event of 27 May 1997[12]), or where life-saving actions are precluded by circumstances.
		Tornadoes are rare events, and it is possible to spend an entire lifetime, even in the center of what is known colloquially as "Tornado Alley," and never even see a tornado, much less experience one.
	www.cimms.ou.edu /~doswell/spotter_history/spotter_history.html (8828 words)

	NWS Norman, Oklahoma - Photos of the April 10, 1979 Wichita Falls, TX Tornado
		The formation of the tornado and its movement toward the Memorial Stadium and McNiel Junior High School were captured by Wolfgang Lange from the front of his apartment complex which was across the street from school building (Tornado Track Figure; Location #2).
		The tornado was photographed from the south during this period by Pat Blacklock, who was located on the southern shore of Lake Wichita (Tornado Track Figure; location #5).
		During this interval, the tornado was photographed by Professor Joe Henderson of Midwestern State University from the Ligon Coliseum (Tornado Track Figure; Location #7) and by Troy Glover from the roof of the Bethania Hospital (Tornado Track Figure; Location #8).
	www.srh.noaa.gov /oun/wxevents/19790410/wichitafalls.php (1143 words)

	Weather and Forecasting
		The tornado that hit the metropolitan Oklahoma City area killed 36 people, the most in the U.S. since the 10 April 1979 Wichita Falls, Texas tornado killed 42 (see Table 1 for a record of the most fatalities in a single U.S. tornado going backwards in time from the end of 2000).
		Along with the apparent break in the number of tornadoes with at least ten fatalities, another reason for concentrating on the period beginning in 1875 is clear when the number of killer tornadoes per year is considered (Fig.
		We can compare the return period for 10-death tornadoes to the population of the U.S. By smoothing the return periods with a strong 5-point median and 19-point running mean, a shortening of the return period is apparent prior to 1925 with a lengthening of the period since then (Fig.
	www.nssl.noaa.gov /users/brooks/public_html/deathtrivia (3417 words)

	Tornadoes
		Whether it's a slender, graceful tube or a massive, roaring wall of cloud, the tornado is among the most fascinating and frightening of atmospheric phenomena.
		As springtime unfolds, the clashing of warm and cold air results in frequent tornado activity in the Gulf Coast states in March, with the zone moving northward and westward to the upper Midwest by June and July.
		Tornadoes are rare west of the Continental Divide, where moisture for strong storms is usually lacking.
	www.ucar.edu /communications/factsheets/Tornadoes.html (885 words)

	Texas travel guide - Wikitravel
		Texas [1] is the second-largest and second-most-populous state in the United States of America.
		Known for their generosity, hospitality, unusual accent, and penchant for the larger-than-life, Texans are wonderful people to meet, and the variety of cultural experiences, from feasting on bratwurst with the Germans of the Hill Country to watching Flamenco dancers with the Chicanos of the Rio Grande valley, is seemingly unlimited.
		Texas has several international airports, including George Bush Intercontinental (or just "Intercontinental") in Houston, and Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, both of which are major airline hubs and are relatively cheap to fly into.
	wikitravel.org /en/Texas (2106 words)

	Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wichita Falls Tornado is the tornado event that occurred on April 10, 1979.
		The storm spawned a second tornado and moved through the south and east sides of Wichita Falls at around 6:00 P.M. The storm spawned another tornado near Waurika, Oklahoma at around 8:00 P.M. The storm moved 47 miles.
		The Wichita Falls tornado alone killed 42 people, a death toll which was unmatched until the Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak in 1999.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wichita_Falls,_Texas_Tornado (587 words)

	Joel Manes Story
		On that day, at least 13 separate tornadoes touched down in the Texas/Oklahoma area, striking Wichita Falls, Vernon, Seymour, and a number of other towns.
		The little clouds that were shooting towards it were being whipped upwards into the tornado and power lines were sparking and stuff was flying everywhere.
		At least 25 of the 42 deaths in the Wichita Falls tornado were auto-related, and 30 of the 59 people who were seriously injured were also in autos.
	www.tornadoproject.com /safety/manes.htm (1099 words)

	Texas Monthly April 1982: The Tornado
		Most often a tornado forms out of a rotating, low-hanging appendage to a thunderhead called the wall cloud, which is usually located in the southwest portion of the thunderstorm.
		Forty-five people died in the 1979 Wichita Falls tornado, 26 of them in their cars, a terrible place to be in a twister.
		Engineers at Texas Tech’s Institute for Disaster Research have concluded from studying the rubble left by tornadoes that most building damage is the result of the force of the wind, and not the vacuum the tornado creates.
	www.texasmonthly.com /mag/issues/1982-04-01/primer.php (696 words)

	Tornadoes: violently rotating columns of air
		A tornado is defined as a violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and pendent from a cumulonimbus cloud.
		Nearly 3 in 10 tornadoes are strong, such as this twister on the plains of North Dakota.
		Strong and violent tornadoes usually form in association with mesocyclones, which tend to occur with the most intense events in the thunderstorm spectrum.
	ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu /(Gh)/guides/mtr/svr/torn/home.rxml (283 words)

	People, Places & ThAngs Index
		Wichita Falls has a diverse offering of cultural, sporting, and educational activities.
		Wichita Falls celebrates the vision and determination it took to build this city and boldly labors to further advance the city's reputation and expansion as it approaches the next century.
		The community of Wichita Falls sits in the northernmost part of Texas, (most commonly known as "Tornado Alley") with Oklahoma City and Dallas merely a two hour drive away.
	wichita-falls-texas.jsmagic.net /index (400 words)

	Tornado Disaster -- Texas, May 1997
		Previous F-5 tornadoes in Texas occurred in 1976 in Brown County and in 1973 in McLennan and Bosque counties (2); although no injuries or deaths were associated with either tornado in 1973, 11 nonfatal injuries were reported in the 1976 tornado (2).
		NWS tornado watches and warnings are the primary method of alerting communities of an approaching tornado and are disseminated through public safety organizations, sirens, television, radio, or other electronic media (6).
		A tornado watch is issued when weather conditions indicate that a tornado may develop; a tornado warning is issued when a tornado has been sighted or detected by advanced weather technology (6).
	www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00049839.htm (1413 words)

	Wichita Falls Texas, Wichita Falls Hotels Motels.
		Wichita Falls was named after the river that was named after the Indians.
		The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad as well as the Fort Worth and Denver made Wichita Falls their headquarters.
		During the oil boom multiple tracks were laid to Burkburnett and two additional railroads (The Wichita Falls and Northwestern and the Wichita, Ranger and Fort Worth) were financed by oil money.
	www.texasescapes.com /TexasPanhandleTowns/WichitaFallsTexas/WichitaFallsTx.htm (377 words)

	Wichita Falls Museum & Art Center, Wichita Falls, Texas
		The Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center (MAC) has been in a period of transition as we have rewritten our mission statement to identify our focus on art, science, and children s exhibits.
		Wichita Falls' citizens had long dreamed of founding a museum, but it was not until the early 1940s that efforts were made in that direction.
		Wichita Falls: A Century in Photographs by Michael Duty, published by Midwestern State University Press for the Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center, 1982.
	www.museumsusa.org /museums/info/1167481 (1960 words)

	Wichita Falls Tornado of 1979 Taught Hard Lessons That Help Save Lives
		WICHITA FALLS (AP) — Walking through tornado-ravaged neighborhoods after a deadly storm 25 years ago, architect Charles F. Harper saw something strange: small closets or bathrooms that seemed to be rising from piles of debris.
		The Wichita Falls tornado stayed on the ground an hour and traveled 47 miles as it wiped out a fifth of the city and damaged even more areas before dissipating in Oklahoma.
		Tornado sirens sounded in Wichita Falls about 30 minutes before the storm, and television and radio stations aired warnings until power went out just as the twister moved through town about 6 p.m.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1115602/posts (2932 words)

	May 8, 1993 - Lake Arrowhead/Scotland, Texas Tornado
		The tornado funnel had dissipated, but frothy condensation was forming on the ground and being sucked up into a wall cloud that was only a few hundred feet off of the ground.
		The mesocyclone that had produced the earlier tornado was located on the northeast or north side of the precipitation core when this image was made.
		It reportedly produced another tornado northeast of Bowie, Texas in Montague County after this photograph was taken.
	www.k5kj.net /930508.htm (974 words)

	Texas Tornado: News: Archive
		The program's goal is very similar to that of the Texas Tornado, which is to prepare student-athletes ages 18 and under for participation on U.S. National Teams and for future hockey careers.
		The Texas Tornado begin their 2005-06 Exhibition Game schedule with a pre-season game against the Wichita Falls Wildcats during the Dallas Stars Ice Breaker event on Thursday, September 1st at 6:00pm at the American Airlines Center in Dallas.
		Texas Tornado season tickets are on sale now, and include 30-game full season and mini-plan packages, including 15-Game packages which allow you to select your games, and 8-game Friday and/or Saturday night packages.
	www.tornadohockey.com /news/archive/index.cfm?ArchiveID=360 (514 words)

	Science Now/ MAY 1995 - Tornado Formation Puzzles Scientiests
		While they are crucial for bringing much-needed summer rainfall around the globe, in their extreme form they are responsible for devastating flash floods, damaging hail falls, and tornadoes.
		Three camera crews film the evolution of tornadoes from as close as a half mile (about one kilometer), providing images that can later be analyzed to compare wind speeds with those measured by Doppler radar.
		One of the biggest surprises for VORTEX scientists was a storm that produced a tornado near Archer City, Texas on May 29, 1994.
	www.proquestk12.com /curr/snow/snow595/snow595.htm (2125 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Holliday is on U.S. highways 277 and 82, ten miles southwest of Wichita Falls in north central Archer County.
		In 1890 the Wichita Valley Railway built through the area, the post office was opened, and the town was platted by George P. Meade.
		In 1900 or 1901 a tornado demolished the school and reportedly blew the twenty students in class a mile away into a low place in the land, all unhurt.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/HH/hjh10.html (679 words)

	Tornado - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Tornado, violently rotating column of air extending from within a thundercloud (see Cloud) down to ground level.
		Hurricane, name given to violent storms that originate over the tropical or subtropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico,...
		Natural Hazards, dangers arising from geological or weather-related occurrences, such as earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Tornado.html (141 words)

	Off the Kuff: The Wichita Falls Tornado
		Twenty-five years ago, a massive tornado levelled the North Texas city of Wichita Falls, killing 42 people and injuring 1700.
		The April 10, 1979, tornado that hit Wichita Falls is the state's fifth deadliest and one of the largest in U.S. history.
		This article from the local paper is about a family that tried and failed to outrun the tornado in their car.
	www.offthekuff.com /mt/archives/003282.html (1168 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: WICHITA FALLS MUSEUM AND ART CENTER
		The Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center, an art, science, and regional history museum, is located on the banks of Sikes Lake near the Midwestern State University campus in Wichita Falls.
		In 1983 the Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center Trust Fund and a permanent endowment fund were established for the museum.
		The Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center is accredited by the American Association of Museums and is a member of the National Association of Museum Education, the Texas Association of Museums,
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/WW/klwgh_print.html (967 words)

	USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		May 3-6, 1999: Tornadoes kill 44 people in Oklahoma, 5 in Kansas, 1 in Texas, and 4 in Tennessee.
		Tornadoes kill 44 people in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
		April 10, 1979: Tornadoes kill 53 in Texas and 3 in Oklahoma.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/resources/basics/tornado-history.htm (301 words)

	Wichita Falls, Texas Homepage \| Wichita Falls information site \| Wichita Falls interactive map \| Wichita Falls news and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Wichita Falls history has dated back to the early 1700's when the Wichita Indians migrated to the Red River area.
		The name Wichita is derived from the Choctaw word "wia chitoh" meaning "big arbor," a decription of their large grass-thatched arbors and beehive-shaped houses.
		Texas Instruments Inc., the leading maker of chips for cell phones, cut its profit and revenue forecast for the fourth quarter on Monday due to slower sales of semiconductors, and it warned that sales could weaken further early next year.
	www.wichita-falls.com /paralegal/bkp_13.html (632 words)

	Texas Tornadoes
		The tornado later destroyed a restaurant, part of a shopping center, and another apartment complex where the tornado took more lives.
		The Jarell Tornado was an F5 tornado that struck the town of Jarrell, Texas, on May 27, 1997.
		The tornado was 3/4 of a mile (1.2 km) wide and tracked across the ground for 7.6 miles (12.2 km).
	www.met.tamu.edu /class/Metr304/Severedir/TxTornado.html (638 words)

	Wichita Falls, Texas Supercell 30 May 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The image to the right was taken north of Olney around 9:10 PM after the storm wrapped a new meso and wall cloud.
		SPS was my original target in the morning, but having seen the intersection of the outflow boundary and pacific front in addition to a mesolow translating northeast, I moved my target to Ardmore, OK and waited there.
		Storm regenerated after dark with a new meso over Archer City and I chased it until late since it was moving in the general direction of Denton and home.
	www.cycloneroad.com /2001May30chase.htm (172 words)

	The Wichitan Online
		He said there are two storm spotters organizations in Wichita Falls and two other storm spotters on campus, David Gaines, a graduate assistant in the history department and Mark Morgan, a supervisor at the central plant.
		Gaines is the emergency coordinator for the Wichita Falls area.
		The majority of people killed in the 1979 tornado were trying to outrun it in their vehicles.
	wichitan.mwsu.edu /2003-0409/feature.html (1939 words)

	TAISMHO NOAA
		The tornado that hit the metropolitan Oklahoma City area killed 36 people, the most in the U.S. since the 10 April 1979 Wichita Falls, Texas tornado killed 42 (Table 1)for a record of the most fatalities in a single U.S. tornado going backwards in time from the end of 2000).
		Along with the apparent break in the number of tornadoes with at least ten fatalities, another reason for concentrating on the period beginning in 1875 is clear when the number of killer tornadoes per year is considered(Fig.
		Fig.1: Killer tornadoes per year in United States, 1800-2000.
	www.taismho.com /weather/noaa.html (3430 words)

	Wichita Falls, Texas (TX) Detailed Profile - relocation, real estate, travel, jobs, hotels, hospitals, schools, crime
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		wind speeds 207-260 mph) tornado 10.7 miles away from the city center killed 42 people and injured 1740 people and caused between $50,000,000 and $500,000,000 in damages.
	www.city-data.com /city/Wichita-Falls-Texas.html (1328 words)

	Tornadoes, and their pictures, facts, information, stories, best...Everything about tornadoes!
		I wanted to chase Tornadoes and be a meteorologist (broadcasting live in the middle of great storms).
		As for the Tornado chasing, I was promised by all that I would be scared into submission the first time I saw one...yeah right.
		The (former town of) Jarrell, Texas Tornado of ’97
	www.geocities.com /mjblood2 (392 words)

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