In 1955 the small town of Udall, Kansas, was home to oil field workers, homemakers, and teenagers looking ahead to their futures.
Through the tragedy and hope found in this story of destruction, Without Warning tells a larger story of community, survival, and how we might find our way through the challenges of the future..
Minick demonstrates that even if we have never experienced a tornado, we are still a people shaped and defined by weather and the events that unfold in our changing climate.
His spellbinding narrative connects this history to our world today.
Jim Minick\'s nonfiction account, Without Warning , tells the human story of this disaster, moment by moment, from the perspectives of those who survived.
It remains the deadliest Tornado in the history of Kansas.
By the time the Tornado moved on, it had killed 82 people and injured 270 others, more than half the town\'s population of roughly 600 people.
It lifted a pickup truck, stripped off its cab, and hung the frame in a tree.
It toppled the water tower.
In three minutes the Tornado destroyed most of the buildings, including the new high school.
But on the night of May 25, an F5 Tornado struck their town Without warning.
In 1955 the small town of Udall, Kansas, was home to oil field workers, homemakers, and teenagers looking ahead to their futures
