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SUMMARY:Earliest Tornado Photograph
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DESCRIPTION:\n	\n\n\n\n	April 26\, 1884: This Is Believed to Be the Firs
	t Known Photograph of a Tornado\n\n\n\n	Stereograph view of a tornado as i
	t passed just northwest of Garnett on April 26\, 1884 in Anderson County\,
	 Kansas. According to the Kansas Historical Society\, it is believed to be
	 the first photograph of a tornado.\n\n\n\n	For three days that spring\, t
	he United States Signal Corps\, an early precursor to the National Weather
	 Service\, observed a massive storm cell moving into Kansas from Colorado.
	 At 5:30 p.m. on April 26\, 1884\, residents of Garnett witnessed a long r
	ope-like funnel descend from the western sky near the tiny hamlet of Westp
	halia. For roughly 30 minutes\, it moved on a northeasterly path. The torn
	ado’s slow progress allowed local fruit farmer and amateur photographer 
	A.A. Adams time to assemble his cumbersome box camera and capture this sin
	gular image. Positioned near the United Presbyterian Church in Garnett\, A
	dams was standing just 14 miles from the cyclone.\n\n\n\n	Meteorology was 
	still in its infancy in the 1880s. The Signal Corp could measure weather a
	nomalies through the use of field stations\, but could not issue forecasts
	. As a result\, early settlers had no warning. Before this shot\, historic
	ally the only images of them were drawings by eyewitnesses. Photographic e
	vidence provided experts with valuable insight and proved infinitely fasci
	nating to a general public more accustomed to legend than science.\n\n\n\n
		The day after the storm\, a newspaper reporter from the Anderson County R
	epublican rode out on horseback to assess the damage. Though several resid
	ents reported having heard the sound of a locomotive often associated with
	 tornadoes\, the storm traveled roughly nine miles through open prairie an
	d caused little damage. The funnel was reported to have “the appearance 
	of a long rope of a purplish colored cloud.” According to Monthly Weathe
	r Review\, “About three miles north of Westphalia a wagon laden with lum
	ber was struck by the tornado. The lumber was scattered over the prairie\,
	 and the driver and horses were carried a considerable distance in the air
	.” The driver was identified at David Metheney\, according to the Kansas
	 Historical Society.\n\n\n\n	Adams was well aware of the value of his imag
	e. Born on a Virginia farm\, he arrived in Kansas in 1857. Following a sho
	rt stint in the Civil War\, he settled in Lawrence\, Kansas\, where he est
	ablished a photography studio. He sold the studio in 1867 and moved to And
	erson County. Following the 1884 storm\, Adams attempted to exploit his ra
	re image by selling souvenir cabinet cards and stereographs.\n\n\n\n	URL\n
	\n	https://www.vintag.es/2020/04/first-tornado-photograph.html\n\n	 \n\n\
	n\n	\n\n
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