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The Story of a Killer Tornado
Touchstone
March 2007
On Sale: March 6, 2007
256 pages
ISBN: 0743280539
EAN: 9780743280532
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The Perfect Storm on the prairie, Storm Warning is a
compulsively readable account of one of the most terrible
tornadoes in history -- and the extraordinary people who
kept it from becoming the deadliest. May 3, 1999, is a day that Oklahomans will never forget. By
the time the sun set over a ravaged plain, some 71 tornadoes
had claimed 11,000 homes and businesses and caused a billion
dollars in damages. One of them was a mile-wide monster of
incredible power, the fiercest F5 twister to hit a
metropolitan area, and whose 300 mph winds were the fastest
ever recorded on the planet. Veteran journalist Nancy Mathis draws on numerous interviews
to weave the story of those few terrifying hours that
irrevocably changed the lives of many Oklahomans. Storm
Warning features Kara Wiese, who fought to save her son from
the fatal winds, and Charlie Cusack, who followed the
tornado's progress on television until it came knocking on
his front door. Amazingly, only thirty-eight people perished
at the hands of the Oklahoma F5. Many lives were saved by
the efforts of professionals such as Ted Fujita, the creator
of the Fujita Scale (dubbed "Mr. Tornado" for his relentless
pursuit to unravel a twister's mysteries); the
oft-criticized but dogged government meteorologists; and
Gary England, a resourceful TV weatherman whose tireless
efforts prepared hundreds of people in the tornado's path.
Storm Warning alternates between personal stories and the
history of the struggle to understand this bewildering force
of Mother Nature, creating a nail-biting, captivating look
at surviving the fury from the skies.
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