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Cox, Brittany (Fa 763), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cox, Brittany (Fa 763), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 763. Paper titled “Haunted Places in Brandenburg, Kentucky” written by Brittany Cox for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Paper includes information about haunted locations in Brandenburg, Meade County, Kentucky.
Woolfolk, Dorothy (Gregory) (Sc 713), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Woolfolk, Dorothy (Gregory) (Sc 713), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 713. Letter written to Marjorie Clagett, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Dorothy (Gregory) Woolfolk, Brandenburg, Meade County, Kentucky, in which she describes the tornado that devastated the town on 3 April 1974.
Kesler, Jonathan G. (Fa 201), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kesler, Jonathan G. (Fa 201), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 201. Paper: "Day of Disaster: Brandenburg, Kentucky, and the Tornado of April 3, 1974," written by Western Kentucky University folk studies student Jonathan G. Kesler, about the tornado that wreaked death and destruction on Bradenburg, Meade County, Kentucky, on 3 April 1974.
The National Weather Service's Polygon Method: Warning Dissemination Of The Future, Crystal L. Bergman
The National Weather Service's Polygon Method: Warning Dissemination Of The Future, Crystal L. Bergman
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
The National Weather Service (NWS) is continuously improving its forecasting skills, but forecasters still cannot accurately predict the path of a tornado or a severe thunderstorm. The NWS has developed a new warning system in which the warned area is outlined by a polygon, not a county boundary. The polygon-waming approach is expected to significantly reduce the total square-mile area of warnings not followed by an event, called the False Alarm Area. There are three central issues concerning the failure of the polygon-warning method: I) the size of the counties impacted by a storm, 2) the impact of the new …