Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
Erin Austen Abbott, Photographer
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Notes:
1. Michael C. Robinson, "Natural Disasters," in The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Vol. 1, ed. Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris (New York: Anchor Books, 1989): 584.
2. Clay Harden, "Tornadoes Slam Mississippi: Families, Businesses Sort through Rubble," Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger, February 27, 2001, 7A.
3. Harden, 7A.
4. "Twisters Cut Destructive Path across Mississippi," Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger, January 4, 2000, 1A.
2. Clay Harden, "Tornadoes Slam Mississippi: Families, Businesses Sort through Rubble," Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger, February 27, 2001, 7A.
3. Harden, 7A.
4. "Twisters Cut Destructive Path across Mississippi," Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger, January 4, 2000, 1A.
U.S. Tornado Map depicting average annual number of Tornadoes, 1955-1967 From James W. Clay, Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989). |
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Recommended Resources:
Links:
Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage of The University of Southern Mississippi: Oral Histories of the Tupelo Tornado, 1936
Sarah Bernice Arnold: http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/coh/coharnolds.html
Howard Dudley Long: http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/coh/cohlonghb.html
Janelle McComb: http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/coh/cohmccombjb.html
Aaron Morgan: http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/coh/cohmorganab.html
Disaster Center: Mississippi Tornadoes
http://www.disastercenter.com/miss/tornado.html
National Weather Service: Tornado Statistics for Mississippi, 1950-2007
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jan/TorStats/TorStatsMain.php
Tornado Project: Mississippi Tornadoes
http://www.tornadoproject.com/alltorns/mstorn.htm
The Tupelo-Gainesville Outbreak
Information about a group of tornadoes that devastated the southeastern United States in 1936.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupelo-Gainesville_Outbreak
Print Materials:
Grazulis, Thomas P. Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991, A Chronology and Analysis of Events. St. Johnsbury, VT: The Tornado Project of Environmental Films, 1993.
Harden, Clay. "Tornadoes Slam Mississippi: Families, Businesses Sort through Rubble." Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger, February 27, 2001, 7A.
Pettus, Gary. "Tornado, Mississippi's Winds of Fate: Warning System Improvement Due." Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger, November 24, 2002, 1A.
Ramage, Jr. Martis D. Tupelo, Mississippi, Tornado of 1936. Tupelo: Northeast Mississippi Historical and Genealogical Society, 1997.
Rice, Doyle. "Global Warning: Increase in Storms." USA Today, December 4, 2007, 9D.
Associated Press, "Storms Sweep across Northern Mississippi." Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger, May 5, 2003.
"Twisters Cut Destructive Path across Mississippi." The Clarion-Ledger, January 4, 2000, 1A. ["Staff Writers Pamela Berry, Riva Brown and Theresa Kiely contributed to this report."]
Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage of The University of Southern Mississippi: Oral Histories of the Tupelo Tornado, 1936
Sarah Bernice Arnold: http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/coh/coharnolds.html
Howard Dudley Long: http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/coh/cohlonghb.html
Janelle McComb: http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/coh/cohmccombjb.html
Aaron Morgan: http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/coh/cohmorganab.html
Disaster Center: Mississippi Tornadoes
http://www.disastercenter.com/miss/tornado.html
National Weather Service: Tornado Statistics for Mississippi, 1950-2007
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jan/TorStats/TorStatsMain.php
Tornado Project: Mississippi Tornadoes
http://www.tornadoproject.com/alltorns/mstorn.htm
The Tupelo-Gainesville Outbreak
Information about a group of tornadoes that devastated the southeastern United States in 1936.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupelo-Gainesville_Outbreak
Print Materials:
Grazulis, Thomas P. Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991, A Chronology and Analysis of Events. St. Johnsbury, VT: The Tornado Project of Environmental Films, 1993.
Harden, Clay. "Tornadoes Slam Mississippi: Families, Businesses Sort through Rubble." Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger, February 27, 2001, 7A.
Pettus, Gary. "Tornado, Mississippi's Winds of Fate: Warning System Improvement Due." Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger, November 24, 2002, 1A.
Ramage, Jr. Martis D. Tupelo, Mississippi, Tornado of 1936. Tupelo: Northeast Mississippi Historical and Genealogical Society, 1997.
Rice, Doyle. "Global Warning: Increase in Storms." USA Today, December 4, 2007, 9D.
Associated Press, "Storms Sweep across Northern Mississippi." Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger, May 5, 2003.
"Twisters Cut Destructive Path across Mississippi." The Clarion-Ledger, January 4, 2000, 1A. ["Staff Writers Pamela Berry, Riva Brown and Theresa Kiely contributed to this report."]
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