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Appendix F Palestine, Texas, Tornado, November 15, 1987
Pages 55-59

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... Among the places hardest hit by tornadoes as were: · Giddings, Lee County a tornado destroyed an electric power station, damaged 35 homes, and injured eight persons in mostly black and Mexican neighborhoods in northeast Giddings. · Caldwell, in adjacent Burleson County—a tornado killed two persons, injured 12, and damaged or destroyed 42 residences.
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From page 56...
... M Story Elementary School and moderately damaged George Washington Elementary School and two churches (Lakeview Conference Center of the United Methodist Church and Camp Zion Baptist Church)
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From page 57...
... It gave severe weather warnings throughout the day and began Emergency Broadcasting Service (EBS) at 2:48 p.m., after the station manager received a call from the weather station at Fort Worth, Texas, informing him that a tornado was approaching Palestine from the southeast.
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From page 58...
... In Saragosa, the author emphasized the cultural factors that blocked warning dissemination, but apparently cultural differences are only one of a number of factors contributing to the problem, which can be identified as our society's seeming inability to use the considerable hazard predictive knowledge available to protect human lives. The author would argue that the present emphasis on weather research and on ways (e.g., through the development of more sophisticated radar)
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... It is this author's recommendation that the National Research Council consider creating a panel of scholars in the field of disaster research to develop the technical specifications for such demonstration projects.
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