TORNADO AT NORTHFIELD, MINN., MAY 3, 1922

Tornado Warnings and Tornado Fatalities : The Case of May 22 , 2011 Tornado in Joplin , Missouri

Icterus Neonatorum *Read 10th May 1922.

The occurrence of jaundice in the newborn is so frequent and the theories put forward to explain it so various, that the following observations were made in the hope of throwing further light on the subject. Number of Infants Examined.?Over 300 infants (337) were studied. The total number was composed of two large series of consecutive births. No blood tests were made for syphilis, reliance bei...

Risk of tornado-related death and injury in Oklahoma, May 3, 1999.

On May 3, 1999, powerful tornadoes, including a category F5 tornado, swept through Oklahoma. The authors examined all tornado-related deaths, hospital admissions, and emergency department visits to identify important risk factors. Data on deaths and injuries directly related to the tornadoes and information obtained from a survey of residents in the damage path of the F5 tornado were used in a ...

Deaths in the 3 May 1999 Oklahoma City Tornado from a Historical Perspective

The 3 May 1999 Oklahoma City tornado was the deadliest in the United States in over 20 years, with 36 direct fatalities. To understand how this event fits into the historical context, the record of tornado deaths in the United States has been examined. Almost 20 000 deaths have been reported associated with more than 3600 tornadoes in the United States since 1680. A cursory examination of the r...

Temporal trends in lava dome extrusion at Santiaguito 1922 – 2000

We present a means of extracting lava dome extrusion rates from data provided by the Thematic Mapper and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus instruments flown on the Landsat satellites. Extrusion rates derived from the Landsat data for Santiaguito dome complex (Guatemala) during November 1987 and January 2000 of 0.72€0.08 and 0.48€0.09 m3 s–1 compare favorably with ground-based estimates of 0.63€0.28...