Tornado Climatology Table of Contents

    Table of Contents

   1. Introduction……………………………………………………………....    1
   2. Tornado datasets…………………………………………………….....    1
   3. Geographic data……………………………………………………....... 1
         a. Population……………………………………………………............. 2
         b. Agricultural and livestock……………………………………............    3
   4. Tornado warning archive……………………………………………..... 3
   5. Tornado events in the North Platte CWFA…………………………....    4
         a. Tornadoes by month…………………………………………...........    4
         b. Time occurrences and peaks………………………………...........     5
         c. Tornadoes by county…………………………………………...........     6
         d. Tornado path lengths and width……………………………...........    6
         e. Injuries and deaths……………………………………………........      7
         f. Tornado size and strength……………………………………..........     7
   6. Tornado warning information and distribution………………………     8
         a. NOAA Weather Radio…………………………………………..........     8
         b. World Wide Web………………………………………………..........      9
         c. Television and radio……………………………………………........ 10
   7. Preparedness…………………………………………………………... 10
   8. Summary…………………………………………………………………   10
   9. Acknowledgements……………………………………………………..   11
10. References………………………………………………………………   11

      Appendices:

      A.   Hourly tornado time plots
      B.   Tornado F-scale plots
      C.   Tornado Top 5
      D.   Fugita tornado damage scale

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