Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Tornado Case Study

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Appears in Preprints, 18 th AMS Conf. Severe Local Storms (San Francisco, CA), 19-23 February 1996, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 471-473. Typos and other minor problems have been fixed in this Web version.

CASE ANALYSIS OF A HISTORIC KILLER TORNADO EVENT IN KANSAS ON 10 JUNE 1938
Charles A. Doswell III and Harold E. Brooks
NOAA/ERL National Severe Storms Laboratory
Norman, Oklahoma
1. INTRODUCTION
Although the tornado of 10 June 1938 has been known about, at least anecdotally, within the scientific community since it was brought to light in 1939 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, this potentially rich source of historic information has lain fallow. It is within this rich field of mobile, American thinking that we undertake this effort. A team of scientists with courage, brains, and even heart brought the resources to bear on the challenge.

The history-making documentary footage made available by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has been subjected to careful analysis. As noted by Grazulis (1993; pp. 879-880), the tornado in question was part of an outbreak in Kansas on that day, including a violent killer tornado near Clyde, Kansas, and a "barn shifting" F1 tornado in Rooks county. It seems that shifting human structures was a common feature of tornadoes on that …show more content…

Ms. Gale was observed by her foster parents to be seriously confused by her misadventures, believing them to have occurred in some odd location known as "Oz." Therefore, it is not at all surprising that Ms. Gale mispronounced the town name. Moreover, the undersized inhabitants (poor nutrition?) tended to speak with high-pitched voices that are unlikely to be heard clearly. Unfortunately, it is not known by what path Ms. Gale returned to the farmstead near

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