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U.S. Air Force Air Weather Service. Transportable weather stations used to meet the changing needs of the U.S.military

A snow covered area. Transportable weather stations being used according to requirements. These mobile units can be transported anywhere. A man gets inside a weather station. Airplanes flying in formation overhead. Parachutes being dropped from the airplane. A soldier stands holding an air balloon. Another soldier stands nearby. Humidity, temperature and air pressure are being measured. A rocket being launched for the purpose.

Date: 1960
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076764
U.S. Air Force Air Weather Service Weather reconnaissance aircraft

Military Airlift Command Air Weather Service recon aircraft are shown. A B-57 taxiing; a C-135 in flight; a C-130 in flight. View inside C-130 showing crew stations and equipment. View of B-57 used for high altitude radiation sampling.

Date: 1960
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076765
U.S. Air Force Air Weather Service obtaining weather data before launching of rockets and manned space vehicles

Weather surveillance is necessary for the launching of missiles. A rocket being launched from a launching pad. Advance knowledge of air density, pressure, humidity and wind velocity is necessary for the launch. Accurate forecast is needed for the launch of manned space vehicles. Air to air refueling of aircraft. Office of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Officers discussing a map. Hurricane Hunters crew working on locating hurricane centers. An airplane in flight. Men seated inside the airplane.

Date: 1960
Duration: 3 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076766
U.S. Air Force Air Weather Service making use of NASA Weather satellite data.

Observation of weather data collected from weather satellites. U.S. Air Force woman looking at photographs related to weather data. She works on an instrument. Airmen and women working to prepare a weather forecast. The weather forecast is prepared and transmitted to regional centers. Air Force weather centers located in the US, UK and Japan. Observations are sent to operating locations. Officers discussing. Men standing near an airplane. The airplane in flight overhead. High speed equipment are used for weather observation.

Date: 1960
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076767
Newsreaders and announcers giving information about a tornado as they locate it in the United States.

A documentary titled 'Day of the Killer Tornadoes' on the Super Outbreak of tornadoes in April 1974 that hit regions in many states, including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and New York; and the Canadian province of Ontario. An announcer at a radio station in area of Louisville, Kentucky. He talks over a phone, and informs about the tornado. View of tornado winds blasting through a building and destroying a building. A warning notice for citizens is typed on a typewriter. An alarm rings in the newsroom of the WHAS emergency broadcast station. A news reader giving a warning people about the tornado. Men talking over telephones and giving information about the tornado sighting near Brandenburg Kentucky, and it approaching Louisville, Kentucky. Exterior of a building and view of public address siren horns blaring warning of the incoming tornado. Announcements and warnings about the tornado. A helicopter hovering over an area and the pilot giving information on what he is seeing. Footage of the tornado in the region of a local fair grounds and approaching buildings of downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Men giving information about the tornado as they watch the area. View of the tornado moving near Louisville Kentucky.

Date: 1974, April 3
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076779
People are alerted about a tornado using various sources and a Cincinnati Ohio local emergency broadcast station in the U.S.

A documentary about the 1974 Super Outbreak of tornadoes in the United States, and specifically on occurrence of a tornado in the Cincinnati, Ohio area of the United States. Men working at a control area and on switch boards at the Cincinnati airport. Weather experts and other men working in an office and trying to locate the center of the tornado. They discuss among themselves. Buildings in an area of Cincinnati. Men and women talking about the tornado. A man at a local emergency broadcast station warns people about the tornado. Views of the tornado as it is seen near the Cincinnati airport. A man locating the area of the tornado on a map. Men carrying wounded people on stretchers. People walking in a street following a tornado strike in the area.

Date: 1974, April 3
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076780