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Storm Kings: The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers
Written by Lee Sandlin
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A riveting tale of the weather's most vicious monster -- the super cell tornado -- that recreates the origins of meteorology, and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists who helped change America.
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