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    John Park Finley (April 11, 1854 – November 24, 1943) was an American meteorologist and Army Signal Service officer who was the first person to study tornadoes...
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  • John Finley may refer to: John Finley (Finleyville) (1759–1846), pioneer settler of western Pennsylvania John Park Finley (1854–1943), American tornado...
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  • College John Huston Finley (1863–1940), American educator John "Jack" Lawrence Finley (1935–2006), a United States Navy aviator and astronaut John Park Finley...
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  • fierceness, and grandeur all other phenomena of the atmosphere." John Park Finley, Tornadoes, 1887 Tornado damage to human-made structures is a result...
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    rotation, predating work by John Park Finley, Alfred Wegener, Johannes Letzmann, and Ted Fujita. In 1886, Lieutenant Jno. J. P. Finley in the United States Army...
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    the tornadocyclone, and direction of rotation, predating work by John Park Finley, Alfred Wegener, Johannes Letzmann, and Ted Fujita. Before the Greensburg...
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  • Charles Oscar Finley (February 22, 1918 – February 19, 1996), nicknamed "Charlie O" or "Charley O", was an American businessman who owned Major League...
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    remarkable work done in this field by a U.S. Army soldier, Sergeant John Park Finley. In 1971, Dr. Fujita introduced the idea of a scale to measure tornado...
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  • Heinrich Wilhelm Dove V. Walfrid Ekman Kerry Emanuel John Farrah William Ferrel Rich Fields John Park Finley Michael Fish Robert FitzRoy Bert Foord Benjamin...
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    Oz and Twister. In 1887, the first book on tornadoes was written by John Park Finley, a pioneer in the field of tornado research. While it was a revolutionary...
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