Word: tornados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...misty backwaters of Indian legend, a fierce prairie tornado struck the Potawatomi tribe encamped along the Kansas River. The dead were buried on and around the 250-foot hill that is now called Burnett's Mound, on the southwestern edge of Topeka, and the Great Spirit was enjoined to protect the place forever from the twister's deadly cone.* Topeka's immunity to catastrophic tornadoes had itself become a legend until 7:13 one evening last week, when most citizens were at dinner. By the time they would have been clearing the table, 15 were dead...
...tornado struck directly at Burnett's Mound. Then, in contrast with the hop-and-skip progression of most twisters, it furrowed an almost machine-straight path two to four blocks wide through the heart of the city and into the northeastern suburbs. Houses were blown into rubble, cars blasted into junk. All but one of the 18 major buildings at Washburn University, several of them with heavy stone walls, were destroyed or seriously damaged...
Rallying around a City gartage truck, members of Community Litter Elimination Action Now (CLEAN), lined up outside the Union in preparation for their anti-trash parade last weekend. Sweeping down a ten-block area around Central Square, the CLEAN team, Cambridge's own white tornado, advertised the start of "Cleanup Week...
Indoor Whirlwind. While Florida was still cleaning up its storm damage, another tornado started spinning in Washington, D.C. But this one was manmade, and it whirled with promise. Generated in a laboratory at Catholic University by Chinese-born Dr. Chieh-Chein Chang, head of the university's space sciences department, the indoor twister probably came closer to simulating a real tornado than any other artificial storm ever produced. By carefully analyzing its characteristics, Chang hopes to learn how to build structures that will better withstand the deadly twisters and perhaps point the way toward more accurate prediction and even...
...Bottom. Using tiny temperature, velocity and pressure recorders, Chang has already gathered some basic data on his miniature storm and discovered that it conforms to tornado dynamics in two ways: the motion of the column is faster at the top than the bottom, and pressure at the bottom of the funnel, surrounding the low-pressure "eye," is considerably greater than at the top. It is this extremely low pressure in the eye and the high-velocity winds in the funnel that make the tornado so deadly. To better determine the forces at work, Chang intends to build a larger cage...