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The Worcester tornado

The American Journal of Surgery, 1954
Abstract Our experiences in the recent tornado would suggest that in the event of another disaster: 1. 1. The Police Department should notify the hospital as to the anticipated number of casualties to be handled and a policeman should be dispatched to the Admitting Department. 2. 2.
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Tornado Injuries Related to Housing in the Plainfield Tornado

International Journal of Epidemiology, 1995
On 28 August 1990, a tornado in Will County, Illinois, caused 29 deaths and more than US $200 million in damage. Risk factors for impact-related morbidity and mortality were studied.A case-control study was conducted of 26 people hospitalized or killed, and 116 injured, randomly selected people who were in houses damaged by the tornado.
S A, Brenner, E K, Noji
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Improvements in Tornado Warnings and Tornado Casualties

International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters, 2006
Doppler radar installation by the National Weather Service (NWS) improved tornado warning performance, raising the probability of detection and mean lead time while reducing the false alarm ratio. Research on tornado casualties has established that a warning reduces tornado injuries while lead times of up to fifteen minutes also reduce tornado ...
Kevin M. Simmons, Daniel Sutter
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Poincaré tornados

Optics Letters
We show that Poincaré polarization singularities, spiraling like a tornado, can be generated by superimposing two orthogonally polarized, abruptly auto-focusing ring-Airy beams that carry orbital angular momentum (OAM). Seeded by phase vortices of the same helicity, which are adapted to the high-intensity rings of one of the ...
Apostolos Brimis   +2 more
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