However, tornado forecasts were only available to Air Force weather offices and were still not issued by the Weather Bureau.
In the 1950s, needing the price of onions to rise, he bribed the weather bureau to issue a frost warning.
The Central Weather Bureau said the tremor had a relatively shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles).
The national weather bureau has warned extremely hot conditions are expected across much of the country next week.
The magnitude-6.3 quake's epicenter was near Jenai township in Nantou County in central Taiwan, about 250 kilometers (155 miles) south of Taipei, the Central Weather Bureau said.
In 1953, the U.S. Weather Bureau established the Severe Local Storms Center, known as SELS. The first tornado watches issued by SELS usually covered an average area of 27, 000 square miles.
Evans, the manager of Bush's presidential campaign, was tapped by the president-elect December 20 for the Commerce post, where, should he be confirmed, he will be charged with overseeing domestic commerce, international trade agreements, import and export levels, fisheries policy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Census Bureau and the National Weather Service.
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In France, the heavy snowfall was not expected to end until Monday evening at the earliest, according to weather bureau Meteo France.
The U.S. Weather Bureau started reporting tornadoes, thunderstorms, hailstorms, lightning and high winds at a few experimental locations across the United States in spring 1943.
We will have to radically scale back the Department of Commerce, the EPA, and all manner of other departments, agencies and foundations, from the Agency for International Development to the Arctic Research Commission, the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the National Weather Service, the Department of Housing and Urban Development to the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
Flash floods left as much as five inches of rain in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina, on Monday night, said Darin Figurskey, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Raleigh bureau.
However, the upward trend is unlikely to continue as the holiday effect fades and warmer weather starts to bolster food supplies, said Yu Qiumei, a senior statistician with the bureau, suggesting CPI growth will ease this month.
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