• Cumulonimbus Commandos, Jim Reed, Weatherwise, 4-5/95, pp. 16-23. Do sheep weather alerts mean that it will rain sheep?
• Simon Torok, Bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, 8/94, pp. 72-74.
• Forest Reorganization: A case study in an old-growth forest catastrophic blowdown, Chris Peterson and Steward Pickett, Ecology, 76(3), 1995, pp. 763-774.
• Review of Standard Practice for Wind-Resistant Manufactured Housing, James McDonald and John Mehnert, Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 4/89, pp. 88-96.
• Tornado watchers get a flash of inspiration, Jeff Hecht, New Scientist, 10/7/95, p. 17.
• Tornado, Daniel Pendick, Earth, 10/95, pp. 40-48.
• Tornadoes, Robert Davies-Jones, Scientific American, 8/95, pp. 48-57.
• Twister -- The Science of Tornadoes and the Making of An Adventure Movie, Keay Davidson, 1996, Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster.

Roamings All Over It

• Case Study of 3 different storms in Illinois on April 19,1996.
• More weather photos.
• Kansas Storm chasers photo gallery.
• Some nice hook echoes from an April 1, 1998 storm in Virginia.
• Supercell simulation that's worth a click.
• Nice sequence of thunderstorm evolution.

• Official word from the government on thunderstorms.
• Check out FunneLinks. This site contains numerous tornado related links.
• The Tornado Debris Project is blown away by airborne trash.
• Inadvertently, we ended up UNDERNEATH THE ROSEVILLE TORNADO AS IT MATERIALIZED...

Protective Advice

• Here's what the American Red Cross has to say.
• And here's their preparedness plan.

Et Cetera

• A book about twisters
• A weather glossary. Yikes -- it's thorough!

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