Storm kings : the untold history of America's first tornado chasers / Lee Sandlin.

Author: Sandlin, Lee.

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, c2013.

ISBN: 9780307378521 (hbk.)
0307378527 (hbk.)

Description: xxv, 266 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject: Tornadoes.
Storm chasers.
Meteorology History.

Notes: Map on lining papers.

Contents: Introduction. Ghost riders -- Prologue. The pillar in the storm -- pt. 1. The thunder house. The electricians ; A little more of the marvelous ; To treat Master Franklin -- pt. 2. The storm war. The so-called tornado ; The philosophy of storms ; Under the map ; One dead, one exhausted, one converted ; The finger of God -- pt. 3. Red wind and tornado green. The Great American Desert ; The night watch ; Premonitory symptoms ; Violent local storma ; How to escape ; The desert is no more ; The book of failure ; An awful commotion -- pt. 5. The mystery of severe storms. Canvas and cellophane ; The unfriendly sky ; Visible effects of the invisible -- Epilogue. The wild hunt.

Summary: "[A] tale of supercell tornadoes and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists whose discoveries created the science of modern meteorology"--Dust jacket flap.