Scope and Content 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...

Scope and Contents Collection contains original weather observations for Payne County, Oklahoma. The form lists, by month, the temperature, precipitation, water temperature, wind, and evaporation in Payne County.