Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-16

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cocks or wheat shocks over the neigh.
boring country. but they are not nearly
SO destructive as The second FORM
The dcrochccs pass by insensible
gradatious into thundersiorns, and Sc
we're types Of theys are sometimes called
torundoes or cyclones
WIND-RU SHES.
Tho 9th storm Is what may he called
a wind rush that Is little narrow gale.
Sometimes several wnd-rushes travel
parallel to each other at distance Of a
few furlongs apart This seems to have
been the true character OF the violent
wind-stOrm that crossed the City Of
Washington 81 November %, 1891, aud
demolished au unfinished building. Kill.
ing ono man.
WHEN TO EXPECT TORNADOES.
The tornado occurs at the hottest time
Of the day and Ia the hottest season Of
the year
They are especially likely 20 occur
whcu the temperature Is unseasonubly
warm and the uir very moist. They are
most usual when the air u calm close"
murky: still hot afternoons are the most
favorable for them.
The occur in ell temperate int.
tudes whore the air is not too dry.
England, France, Germany and China
have their tornadocs. There is also
tropical storm called tornado. common
on the coast Of equatorial West Africa.
Tho United States has the reputation Of
producing the most destructive lorna
does and also Of having the greatest
number.
nORNADOEs IN THE TORNADO
BELT.
The homo Of the tornado IN this coun-
try ~ the comparatively fiat region from
a. N..a a -
mountains. They are least common Ia
tile northern aud southern parts of this
belt, aud they sometimes occur 20 the
east Of the Allcghauies.
10 Is not easy 10 say what part of this
region Is most afflicted IL eau be safely
suid, however, that tornndOes generally
| begin In the spring near the southern
edge OF this area and gradually creep
nOWhward
IOrnadoes are by no means common
| phenomenon | have spent the most Of
/ my life in the area mentioned and have
/ never seen one, except q mild one of the
/ third type mentioned above.
Tho great majority OF the inhabitants
| In this area probably pass their entire
| lives without knowing more of tornadoes
! than what they see I'm books or news
| papers TornadOos are not often very
! destructive, aud when they are the path
! OF destruction Is very nurrow.
! The area of any state In the region
| where tornadOcs occur which is actually
| swept by them In any year is probably
| not more than one part IN one hundred
| thousand, and the chance of being killed
| 10y a tornado In the same region I'm
! year Is not greater than one IN q million
/ This risk is SO small that q Is not worth
| borrowing trouble over OF course the
chance of injury TO dwellings, timber
| aud stock by atmospheric agencies gen
orally rs very much larger
WHAT TO DO IN TORNADOES.
Toruodoes travel in northumberland
! direction and leave path few rods by
| a few miles long.
The danger is greater on tho south side
| of tornado than on the north side, be-
| cause there the speed of advance twenty
| 10 forty miles an hour Is nddpd to the
speed Of the whrl In the tornado
When tornado actually COMES which,
though not probable is always possible,
the proper thing 10 DO is To- rum NORTH
ward, " there Is time and it win pass go
the south, run south OF southeast NJ it
passes well 70 the north; take 10 the
cellar If " Is not certain where IL will 20.
The cellar Is the snicst place IN al
cases aud lbs west wall or southwest
corner Ia the snfest part of H.
| Tornadoes travel la u u0rtheastward
of general storm generally rather east
| of gouth-Nrely west The winds How
into u "low'-tlmt Is an area of low
barometer In a spiral direction. hut
sometimes low takes on an elongated
form or Inns an extension southwark
In this case the cold inAowing winds
from the northeast are likely 10 meet the
warm and moist winds In nn area ex-
tending southwark or southenatward from
the center of the low" The area tx
sometimes narrow and the line advances.
like Il rank of soldiers, across the country
from west 10 east with hot. close air Ia
front and cold, fresh, drier air behind
| IL Is along such line that thunder
storms, dcrcch0es wiud-rushcs and lorna
does are most likely 10 happen This
may De called the Critical lne" OF the
low In some il Is well-marked aud
It's passage unmistHkHble, In others II can
be located on the weather man. hut
would not be noticed by people generally
la still others and they are The most
numerous-nO trace of q critical line can
be detected,
| SOME THING EVEN THE Wealth
Err BUREAU DON'T KNOW.
II may be well 10 state some things
we don't know
We do not know exactly the mcchan-