Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-10
FORECASTINGS STORMS
ACCURACY AND TlMELINEsS IN FORE
 CASTING WEATHER.
Remarkable Success of the United States Weather Bureau In ForeteIIIng Sudden and Dangerous Changes In the Atmos- phere In Various Sections

SuCNeNA oA NnlNcd states ] Weather Bureau In ForeteIIInE Sudden
 and Dangerous Changes In the Atmos-
 phere In Various Sections
 The signal achievement of the gov ernment weather bureau in predicting 1 the disastrous tornadoes in Iowa 24 . hours in advance of their awful vista tions brought into new prominence the . remarkable accuracy with which in these days of advanced science a weather forecast can be made. The prediction of the Iowa tornado offers noteworthy example of the value of the government bureau and illus trates the perfection of the system it em- ploys, but the forecast in point of accu- racy is duplicated daily. It isn't every day that Q tornado starts on a wild stam- pede, but the weather sharps are expected to keep the cities and towns of the coun- try posted in advance in regard to the weather. The daily forecast has become an all important element in all calcula- tions, whether of pleasure or of business, and could no more be dispensed with than the telegraph or any of the other agencies which have reyolutionized affairs.
 Several years ago couple of young army heutenants who saw tornadoes in every cloudcap kept the western farm CTS lodging in and out of low ground cellars until they became round shoul- dered and neglected their crops, but the young heutenants' experience is now one of the amusing traditions of the office It is told, too, possibly as q joke, that the colored janitor who had rheumatism and looked upon his left leg as reli- able gauge did the prophesying business when the heutenants werc invited to some swell function.
 Things are run differently now, as the reliability of the predictions and the able administration of the bureau at test. It is doubtful, moreover, if any country on the globe has better equip ped service. This is due in some meas ure 10 the opportunities of study offered by the diverse climatic peculiarities of the United States. These peculiarities make the work of weather prophesying here a most difficult task, requiring the employment of men of wide experience and learning. It Is by no means an un- common circumstance for the weather bureau to chase half a dozen different varieties of storms over ;fc country in a day. IL may be hailing in North Da- kota, tornado may be making sad havoc in the western farming belt, a windstorm may be bowling along the Atlantic coast. imperiling shipping. and four or five thunderstorms may be creating alarm in as many different sec tions.
 With all these complications, a short, thicksct man, with gray eyebrows and gray mustache, calmly looks over the maps which arc made on tho reports of every one of the government observers throughout the country and figures out just the kind of weather that may be expected in every state and section. This short, thicksct man. with gray eyebrows and gray mustache, is the official who. on examining the maps on the night of July ,, paused for a mo- ment. and then, to the surprise of his assistants, murmured, This looks like tornado"
 Major Dunwouly was the officer who read the signs ayight. The government observers at Sioux City. Des Moincs, kcokuk and Omaha had all reported threatening atmospheric conditions, and their reports when reduced to tracings on the maps showed that the center of tho atmospheric disturbances was at Cheyenne, with tho winds racing from all four points of the compass toward the Wyoming capital. Major Dun- i woody has had an intimate acquaint- ance with storms for years, and this tornado didn't fool him by pretending to , rendezvous at Cheyenne. The major is an old army officer, who understands all about flank movements, and he began to figure out where the main attack might be expected.
 He was sitting on a high stool in the forecasting room at tho weather bureau, calculating on the tornado's probable evolution. The major read the report of the storm sCntinels at Sioux City and Des Moines over again and then drew a circle. with the center at Cheyenne and the circumference toward the east, touching Davenport The majors ex- perience taught him that the most trouble might be expected in the south east ogIut nt of the circle, and before 9 o'clock that night all the observers who furnished the alarming reports were in- structrd by wire To send out warnings to cities and towns on the respective sec tions. and orders were also given to em- ploy every means tu inform the country districts of the impending peril.
 Hours before the storm broke with its terrible fury express trains running through tho isolated communities had carried the bureaus intelligence. and those who lived far from the railroad station We're warned by whistles which were blown according to an established and we'll understood code.
 How quickly all this was accomplished Illustrates the efficiency of the govern nlcnt system as directed by Chief Har- rington. AtSo'clock on the night of the I 9th tno observations were made, and an hour later Major DunwOody, with quick ' judgment based on long experience, had - located the storm and had sent out a forecast 10 the threatened community, . telling of the dangers 10 be feared. How much greater might have been the dam age To property and how much greater the loss of life but for the warnings!
 The weather bureau did not announce D that tornado might be expected, as 7. tornado predictions went out of favor with the young army heutenants. The , warning, as sent out, was to the effect that severe local thunderstorms were threatened, and the farmers knew full , by them it signified that a ground cellar would be a good place in which to spend July 6. lS93.-Washington Cor. New York World.
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