Chuck Doswell's Research on the Tri-State Tornado

[Bob Hartig]

Several years have passed since Chuck Doswell researched the 1925 Tri-State Tornado. I thought he was going to publish a book or at least an extensive paper on the subject, but it's like the subject dropped off the face of the planet, and I never heard what came of his work. Can anyone here fill me in on the outcome? If there's a publication by Chuck on the tornado, how can I get hold of it?

 

[Patrick Marsh]

My understanding is that it was actually Bob Johns who wrote the book. You can order it on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Tri-State-Tornados-Devastation-Franklin-Hamilton/dp/1468560964). It is also available as a Kindle download.

 

[Bob Hartig]

Perfect. Thanks, Patrick!

 

[Patrick Marsh]

For the record, I believe Chuck was helping Bob with the research and book.

 

[Mike Smith]

Does the book contain a synoptic reconstruction of the meteorological conditions?

 

[Dave Kaplow]

I remember at one point there was a web page, but the site never really seemed to have much in the way of content. I still have the link: http://www.tristatetornado.org/. But I guess the site was never finished, because there's still nothing much to be found there. Too bad, I'd love to find out about anything new they managed to discover concerning an event that has always fascinated me. The talk at the time was that they were going to publish findings that would settle some of the longstanding questions surrounding the Tri-State. Who knows, that may still happen, the wheels of research sometimes turn exceedingly slowly.

 

[Bob Hartig]

I understand that Doswell at al confirmed that the Tri-State was indeed a single tornado rather than a tornado family, as had long been conjectured. They also found the path to have been somewhat longer than previously recorded.

 

[rdale]

Does the book contain a synoptic reconstruction of the meteorological conditions?

A preview is at http://www.openisbn.com/isbn/1468560964/

 

[GPhillips]

A presentation on some of the reconstruction of the meteorology and track can be found here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080307...ons/32ndNESC_Presentation/Banquet/Doswell.ppt

 

[Chris Nuttall]

An article by this research team was just published in the Electronic Journal of Severe Storms Meteorology.
http://www.ejssm.org/ojs/index.php/ejssm/article/view/114

 

[Shawn Schuman]

Wow, that was good timing. I was just searching a few days ago to see if anything else had come out from the reanalysis project. Thanks Chris!