144 S. A. mil— Tornadoes and EaiJstorms of April [No. 2, 









April. 



May. 







District. 



Station. 































liOth 



30th 



1st 



2nd 





I 



r 



1 



1 



Knmaun ...■{ 



GarliTval ... | 

 Tarai ... | 



Cliampawat 

 PitUoragarh 



NaM^Tal 

 Haldwani 

 Eauikliet Obary. 



PanH 



Sriuagar 

 Rndarpnr 

 Kilpm-i... 



Kashipnr 

 Satarganj 



0-2S 

 0-05 

 0-17 

 0-30 

 0-50 



o'ii) 



2-40 

 0-69 



0- 40 

 110 



1- 60 

 0-16 



0-70 

 0-60 



010 

 0-10 



0- 78 



1- 20 



2- 40 



r'23 



0-94 

 0-92 

 0-70 

 0-70 

 0-20 

 0-90 

 0-30 



0-17 

 0-26 



oil 



0-43 

 0-12 

 010 



d-io 



2- 68 

 109 



3- 80 

 2-10 

 1-50 

 1-66 



lot 



1-50 

 1-30 



0- 20 



1- 10 



0 40 



j Sitapnr. 



Sitapnr ... ^ 



Hardoi ... ^ 

 Kheri ... |^ 



Sitapnr,.. 

 Biswau... 



Sidhanli 

 Misrikh 

 Hardoi ... 

 Shahabad 

 Sandila ... 

 Bilgram 

 Kheri ... 

 Mnhamdi 

 Nighasan 



o'67 





056 



0-04 

 0-20 



o-'so 



0-56 

 0-50 



Oil 

 0-20 





The disturbances which produced rai 



u or 



tiail on the 



30th 



April 



and 1st May were thus pretty general over all the north-western dis- 

 tricts of the N.-W. Provinces, but in most places they were of an ordinary 

 character like the thunder-storms which frequently occur in the hot 

 weather mouths. The storms which were of tornado-like violence and 

 destructive to human life were much more limited in their scope, as 

 may be seen from the district reports and newspapers. 



KuMBEE, Times of occurrence, Duration and Paths of the Tornadoes 

 OF THE 30th April and 1st Mat. 



On hearing of the violence of the Moradabad storm and of the occur- 

 rence of the same storm, or others nearly coincident with it, in the sur- 

 rounding districts, I issued a circular to the chief civil ofHcers of Meerut, 

 the Tarai, and all the districts of the Rohilkhund Division. The circular 

 and the replies are printed in the Appendix. Of the Delhi storm I have 

 received no local reports except those which appeared in the newspapers, 

 some cuttings from which are also appended. 



The somewhat conflicting evidence of these reports regarding the 

 time at which the storm visited each place may be summarized as 

 follows : — 



