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Atmospheric Physics Group Professor John L. Stanford Department of Physics and Astronomy Iowa State University (Photo Courtesy of ISU Meteorology program) The tornado at left had just destroyed the tiny hamlet of Jordan in open farmlands about 10km west of Ames and ISU. The tornado occurred on a June afternoon in 1976 and was about 1km in diameter at this time. Thankfully it missed populated ...