John P. Finley: Tornado Forecasting
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Boone, Brittany
Purkaple, Brent
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John P. Finley wrote the first book in English devoted to tornadoes. As a member of the US Army Signal Service, Finley's job was weather forecasting. By the 1880s Finley was widely recognized in the military as a tornado expert. Learn more about Finley's work as well as late nineteenth-century tornado forecasting in this learning leaflet.
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Brittany Boone and Brent Purkaple, "John P. Finley: Tornado Forecasting," Lynx Open Ed, 2017.