Tornado God
American Religion and Violent Weather
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4154899 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Stoll (0000-0003-3081-6871, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 808-809 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaac016 |
| OpenAlex | W4226069919 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Tornadoes are terrifyingly capricious and powerful. Unique geography creates more tornadoes in the United States than in the rest of the world combined. I have a healthy respect for them shading into visceral fear. At 7:00 p.m. on June 8, 1966, when I was eleven, an F5 tornado, the most destructive on the Fujita scale, passed within a mile of my home in Topeka, Kansas, and leveled to the foundations the neighborhood where we had lived just until just a month before. Now I live in Lubbock, Texas, the site of the 1970 tornado that Ted Fujita used to set the F5 benchmark. On the night of December 10–11, 2021, a swarm of tornadoes, including at least one EF4 (Enhanced Fujita), swept through Kentucky, devastated several towns, and killed over sixty people. Although this is the heart of the Bible belt, national news said little about local believers' response to
Fujita scale · Geography · Meteorology · Mile · Tornado · Archaeological Research and Protection · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · History · Marine and environmental studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |