The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-10-12
TT KNOCKED EN- ALL OUT.
LOUISIANA CYCLONE sNEAKED UP ON
THE WEATHER BUREAU.
IL Gave no Intimation Of Its Approach ana
Managers of the Weather Bureau are
Telling How 1t Managed to Creep
Up on Them UnSwares.
Special to TIE Statesman.

Special to Tie Statesman.
GALVESTON, Oct. GA representa-
tive of the press called on DIR. Cline o.
the United States weather bureau tt
obtain some information relative tc
the severe storm which swept the coast
of Alabama and Louisiana during Sun
day and Monday last. The doctor
stated: "The day on which the storm
occurred being Sunday, there was very
little information at hand relative to
the conditions which prevailed at 8 q.
IN. that day. Saturday mornings
map for the country showed a storm OF
considerable magnitude but only mod.
crate intensity covering the country
west of the Mississippi with its center
over the upper Missouri valley, while
an area of high pressure was over the
New England and Middle Atlantic
states and another over the Rocky
Mountain plateau region. In fact
storms are nearly always preceded aud
followed by areas of high pressure by
Sd. m Saturday the storm had moved
southwark and its center formed an
eclipse and rested over Oklahoma and
the eastern portions of Kansas and
Nebraska, with it's major axis extend
ing from Oklahoma City to Omaha,
Neb. 1t had increased in intensity and
dominated the atmospheric move
ments throughout the central valleys
from the Gulf of Mexico to the north
ern boundary of the United States.
The winds from the gulf stations, from
Tampa, Fla, to Corpus Christi, Tex,
were all from southerly directions,
from south east of south, showing only
"a hours before the storm that they
were controlled by conditions OF pres
sure mainly continental and not IN
the gulf.
Sunday morning observation along |
the Texas coast showed no particular
indications of storm in the gulf, al
though the wind had become more
easterly than on the previous date
Sunday night the map showed quite a
change in conditions during the pre-
ceding "a hours, The STERN which
was so we'll developed Saturday night
over Oklahoma and the eastern por-
tions of Kansas and Nebraska mad
changed to a trough of low pressure |
extending from the upper lakes south |
to the west gulf, and the storm at
New Orleans was in the southeast
portion of this trough, will not call
1t a secondary" as it developed the |
features of a primary storm. This
storm appears to have formed and de-
Veloped its intensity within IL or Ia
hours, as its appearance was not
shown on Sunday morning. 1t did
not at any time influence the winds at
Galveston, and the records do not
show its appearance in the vicinity of
any gulf stations except where it left
the gulf.
fit had passed up through the gulf
its approach would certainly have
been indicated by the conditions along
the coast. 1t would have had some
influence on the wind and isobars.
And further, if this storm or cyclone
had moved up through the gulf its APP
proach would have been heralded to
greater or less extent by the decompo
sition of the solar light resulting from
hazy veil accompanying these thun-
der storms which permit the red rays
to pass and absorbs nearly all the re-
naming rays and gives bTick.dust or
copper color to the sky, and which
feature Is as rule so marked that
even the casual observer will notice
the phenomena.
Prot. b. Vines describes these con-
ditions very strillingly as follows: The
tmosphere in the upper regions takes
u a uniform, reddish tint, which
overs the whole atmosphere, and
which during the twilight and while
the crepuscular rays are fading,
merges into the dark, red and some
what violet color, which remains a
long time after sunset, as if this dim
and prophetic light tried to prolong
the evil omen in the longer duration oil
the twilight. The head OF the cumu
lus and strata cumulus appear crown
ed with vivid and dazzling reflections,
the violet color predominatins at the
base; objects appear colored with
flaming reflections and the sky pre-.
sents as whole, magnificent
contrasts and beautiful pict.
ures impossible to describe. Later, a
She time when the GIRO strata begin,
to appear and the opaline veil become,
each moment more defined and trans
formed by degrees into milky semi,
transparent veil, these reddish tint
take character somewhat alarming
as they obscure the SUI, tha whole at
mosphere then simulatiug the glowing
reflections of an GurJra borealis
which resembles pa Immense lire, ant
while the sun is d opping toward tn,
horizon the colors gradually Diminish
in vividness, and / should compar
them in this case to Uhe dark red colo
of incandescent metal. The heaven
acquire at this moment ali appearance
truly threatening and foreHoding evil