What was the first tornado climatology?
John P. Finley, in the 1880s, was the first person to intensively study U.S. tornadoes and their patterns of occurrence. His pioneering volume Tornadoes (1887) discussed his effort-intensive compilation of tornado records, as well as many (now outmoded) safety and meteorological notions about tornadoes. The History of Science department at the University of Oklahoma has a full scan of this book online. NOTE: Tornado climatology information used here may come from either the SPC database or Grazulis (1993).
