March 17, 1952 – The ban on using the word “tornado” was ended. The ban had been in place since 1886. In the 1880s John P. Finley of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, which then handled weather forecasting for the USA, developed generalized forecasts on which days tornadoes were most likely. But in 1886 the […]
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