Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1885 — How to Tell a Tornado. [ARTICLE]

How to Tell a Tornado.

A Western man who has lived among tornadoes all his life, who was raised with them, as it were, says that it is easy to distinguish a tornado from an ordinary blow. A cyclone or tornado north of the equator always comes from the southwest. Its first appearance is that of a local cloud. It always comes when the temperature is low. It is nothing more than an electric storm. The earth refuses to receive the electricity that is constantly being generated, and it accumulates in a mass. "When the cloud extends from one side of the horizon to the other, there is no danger of a cyclone.— Atlanta Constitution.