Floyd C. Pate

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Floyd C. Pate
NationalityAmerican
Scientific career
FieldsMeteorology
Institutions United States Weather Bureau

Floyd C. Pate was an American meteorologist who worked for the United States Weather Bureau and was a member of the American Meteorological Society. [1] Pate worked at the U.S. Weather Bureau office in Montgomery, Alabama as a forecaster, then at the office in Lynchburg, Virginia, and later as the meteorologist in charge (MIC) of the office in Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands. [2] [1] [3]

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Pate is best known for conducting a detailed case study on the 1945 Montgomery tornado titled The Tornado at Montgomery, Alabama, February 12, 1945. Pate described the tornado as "the most officially observed one in history", as it passed 2 miles (3.2 km) away from four different government weather stations, including the U.S. Weather Bureau office in Montgomery. [4] [5]

In 1956, Pate, along with other meteorologists at the U.S. Weather Bureau office in Montgomery, Alabama, published an academic study titled Lightning Damages in Alabama. [2] [6]

References

  1. 1 2 "About Our Members". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society . 42 (3). American Meteorological Society: 189–230. 1 March 1961. doi: 10.1175/1520-0477-42.3.189 .
  2. 1 2 "Lightning Damages in Alabama". Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin. 16 April 1956. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  3. ↑ Farley, Robert F. (17 August 1991). "REMEMBER WHEN". Greensboro News and Record. Retrieved 18 May 2024. Goldsboro native Floyd C. Pate was named to succeed J.P. Molen as meteorologist-in-charge at the U.S. Weather Bureau at the Greensboro-High Point Airport
  4. ↑ F. C. Pate (United States Weather Bureau) (October 1946). "The Tornado at Montgomery, Alabama, February 12, 1945". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 27 (8). American Meteorological Society: 462–464. JSTOR   26257954 . Retrieved 27 May 2023.
  5. ↑ Bleeker, W.; Delver, A. (1 August 1951). "Some new ideas on the formation of windspouts and tornadoes" . Archiv für Meteorologie, Geophysik und Bioklimatologie, Serie A. 4 (1): 220–237. doi:10.1007/BF02246804. ISSN   1436-5065 . Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  6. ↑ Komarek, Sr., E. V. (1966). "The Meteorological Basis For Fire Ecology" (PDF). 5th Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference. Tall Timbers Research Station. Retrieved 18 May 2024.


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