Research on Tornado Identification: Second Quarterly Progress Report April 1, 1955- June 30, 1955

File — Box: 2, Folder: 14

Staff Only

Scope and Content

From the Collection: Tornadoes fascinated and intrigued Herbert L. Jones, an electrical engineering faculty member at the Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical College in Stillwater, but their power and destruction also scared him to death. As a young child living in Canada, while walking with his father one spring day on the Alberta prairie, a rapidly developing thunderstorm created a tornado that passed near the two. The terrifying experience remained etched in his memory for the remainder of his life and led Jones to a lifelong fascination with thunderstorms and to research that became the basis of modern tornado forecasting.

Dates

1904 - 1973

Conditions Governing Access

he collection is open for research use. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the Oklahoma Open Records Act (http://www.odl.state.ok.us/lawinfo/docs/2006-LibraryLaws-PartE.pdf), and other relevant regulations. Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which Oklahoma State University Libraries assumes no responsibility.