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1948 Tinker Air Force Base tornadoes : ウィキペディア英語版 | 1948 Tinker Air Force Base tornadoes
The 1948 Tinker Air Force Base tornadoes were two tornadoes which struck Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on March 20 and 25, 1948. Both tornadoes are estimated to have been equivalent to F3 in intensity on the modern Fujita scale of tornado intensity, which was not devised until 1971. The March 20 tornado was the costliest tornado in Oklahoma history at the time. On March 25, meteorologists at the base noticed the extreme similarity between the weather conditions of that day and March 20, and later in the day issued a "tornado forecast", which was verified when a tornado struck the base that evening. This was the first official tornado forecast, as well as the first successful tornado forecast, in recorded history.〔 ==March 20 tornado== Weather forecasting was still crude and prone to large errors in the era before weather satellites and computer modeling. Thunderstorms were not even in the forecast for the evening of March 20. However, around 9:30 pm storms were reported about to the southwest, and at 9:52 a tornado was sighted near Will Rogers Airport away, along with a wind gust, moving northeast towards the base. At 10:00, the tornado reached the southwest corner of the base. Illuminated by nearly constant lightning, the tornado was highly visible as it bisected the base, tossing around planes which were parked in the open. The control tower reported a wind gust before the windows shattered, injuring several personnel with flying glass. The tornado dissipated at the northeast corner of the base.〔 The tornado missed most structures on the base, but the damage to expensive military aircraft was substantial. The total damage cost came to around $10 million, or $ million in United States dollars.〔 This was the most damaging tornado in Oklahoma up to that date.
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