Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-08-09
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The territory included In the States
of Missouri, Kansas. Iowa and Ne
braska, the center of maximum fire.
quency being near the point of union
of these four States, or about a hun
dred miles east of the geographical CEN
ter of the United States is the tornado
area. According to the reports of the
United States weather bureau, lorna
does occur more frequently In May,
April, June and July, in the order
named, the most violent ones thus far
recorded having happened in April and
the greatest number In May. Already
tornadoes have occurred this season
In this territory, accompanied by much
damage to property and loss of life.
tornado Is the concentration Of
storm energy. 1t is the most destruc-
tive and the most sudden in appear
ance Of all forms Of atmospheric dis
turbance, and Is least easily recog
nlzed in its early stages, even by the
expert. tornado and an electric
storm arise from the same general
conditions, and in the beginning can
not be distinguished one from the
other They often are Identical up to
certain point and are DETECTED into
the one or the other by local cond-
tions with which the general cyclonic
storm comes in contact In Its passage
from one point to another.
Edward II. Bowie, chief Of the ST.
Louis weather bureau, has made a
special study of the subject of lorna
does and is in a position to speak with
authority regarding them.
81 Think" said he, "it would be well
To bring out one point in the begin
ming of this subject, and that Is the
difference between tornadoes and cy-
clones. The sort of windstorm that Is
popularity called cyclone Is not a cy-
clone Mt all, but Is a tornado. The
tornado Is the storm that makes its
appearance In the form of q funnel
shaped cloud, while the cyclone Is a
general storm, or an area Of low
barometrlc pressure. The word cy-
clone means a revolving wind, 1t Is
true, and cyclone Is q revolving wind.
only the revolution covers much
greater area than that of the so-called
'twisters,' or tornadoes A cyclone may
be thousand miles In diameter, while
tornado may not be more than a
hundred feet.
THE CYCLONE.
The cyclone Is the parent of the tor
nado. 1t is the general condition that
produces the tornado. There Is al
ways cyclone somewhere in the Unit
ed States. Without 1t this country
would dry up, for the cyclones bring
us our rains. If you examine a wealth
er map you will see certain sections
marked low These are the areas Of
low pressure, the storm centers or cy
clones, and II you will look further
you will find that all the little arrows
which show the direction of the wint
In the different localities around thi
low region point in a direction gener
ally slantlng toward the center of tn
area marked 'low,' circllng from righ
to left, or opposite to the hands of
clock. That means that the equillit
rum Of the atmosphere is disturbed
but not violently, and that the motto
Is in a generally rotary direction, bu
horizontal rather than vertical. Thes
storm centers move across the countr
from day to day, In generally nortl
easterly direction, and the atmosphere
conditions which they encounter e
route are the immediate causes of vi,
lent storms of one kind or anothe
Sometimes 1t Is severe thunderstorl
and sometimes 1t Is a tornado. Thes
storm centers, or cyclones, extend ov,
large areas, varying from 300 or n
miles to thousand or more miles
diameter.
WHERE ToRNADoEs ORIGINATE.
''Tornadoes always originate in Il
southeast quadrant of these areas
low pressure usually due southeast
the center at distance of from 2
to 225 miles, and they, like the pare
cyclone, travel in generally mort
easterly direction.
"The tornado travels ten or hu
dred miles. and Is dlssiDated in fe
hours. while a cyclone may travel (