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Statewide, tornadoes are becoming stronger and more numerous, inflicting property destruction, injuries, and death. Between 1963 and 1992, the state averaged 15.3 tornadoes yearly, and in 1991 was ranked 22nd nationally in number of tornadoes.
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Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society
(NoCar Q 11 .J68x), Vol. 111 Issue 1, Spring 1995,
p7-12, il
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6392
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When disaster strikes, communities need a plan to respond rapidly and efficiently to deal with the crisis. Recent tornadoes and Hurricane Hugo's sweep across North Carolina on September 22, 1989, gave a number of municipalities a chance to test their emergency plans. Christensen reports how a number of communities, including Gastonia, Charlotte, Monroe, Raleigh, and Holden Beach, dealt with these emergencies.
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35388
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Human’s experience of our galaxy, in terms of extreme weather such as tornadoes and heavenly bodies such as stars, was featured in two of the articles part of this collection. Topics covered in the remaining trio were related to creatures inhabiting what lies below the heavens. One, by Lindsay Zanno, discussed how a bird’s skull lent a special sort of realism to a production of Anton Chekov’s The Seagull. Another revealed new morphological data issued from the study of a rare dinosaur, therizinosaur. The last was a dinosaur lecture series held at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, one of the lecturers being Dr. Mary Schweitzer.
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9694
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Tornadoes, with winds which can reach 300 miles per hour, are one of the most violent storms that pass through North Carolina. Since the National Weather Service began recording them in 1950, only Ashe, Mitchell, and Polk counties have never experienced one. The state has averaged twenty-five tornados a year for the past thirty years. This ranks the state nationally 23rd in the number of yearly tornados and 20th in the number of tornado-related deaths.
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