Behavior of Vehicles during Tornado Winds

Journal of Safety Research

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 181-186

  Schmidlin, Thomas W ^a   King, Paul S ^a   Hammer, Barbara O ^a   Ono, Yuichi ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Mobile homes; Tornado winds; Vehicles; Wind speeds

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004565724     PISSN: 00224375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-4375(98)00014-0     Document Type: Article

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