Broad Street near the B&O Railroad tracks showing box car on side with torn up track.

The corner of Town Street and Rogers Avenue.

The remains of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad bridge at Sullivant Avenue.

Industrial facilities near Broad Street.

Broken levee at Sandusky Street.

Flood damage.

Flood damage on Glenwood Avenue.

A view of Rogers Avenue.

Police carrying a victim of the 1913 flooding.

The remains of Doddington Lumber Yard.

Washed out railroad tracks on the west side of Columbus.

Damage at Broad Street and Rogers Avenue.

All that is left of a home on Sandusky Street.

Chicago Avenue with automobiles.

A rescue boat on Broad Street.

T&OC&W. Yard (may not have read abbreviation correctly). Near Broad Street.

Sign states the obvious. Maybe the sign was put up on a more benign day.

An early Signal Service weather map on record in NOAA Library - September 1, 1872 Careful compilation and study of these maps led to scientific forecasting. In: "Daily Bulletin of Weather-Reports ... for the Month of September, 1872

United States weather map for the day

Signal Tower for Storm Warning Flags used by day, lanterns by night. Used to warn mariners In: "The Boy and the U.S. Weather Men", 1917, p.236

Coast Guard aircraft used to drop hurricane warnings to sponge fishermen

National weather map outside of Department of Commerce Building

Among earliest Signal Service Weather maps

Signal Service Weather map showing huge storm system over Great Lakes region

Weather Bureau weather map showing cold wave in center of country Northeaster attacking mid-Atlantic states

Northeaster pounding New England while brutally cold in Chicago

Weather Bureau kiosk helping get out the word to small town America

Weather Bureau kiosk helping get out the word to small town America

Weather Bureau signals for informing the public

Plotting the weather for the navigators of the air

Young entrepreneur uses weather as a selling point

Typical air weather products available for pilots

Regional headquarters meteorologist keeping track of aviation weather

Using a teletypewriter to transmit weather information

Advertising brochure for teletypewriter used by Weather Service

Signal Service telephone exchange Weather Service had moved to Agriculture Widespread telephone use was major step in communications revolution Helped spread word quicker of impending bad weather

Service C teletypewriter system

Service A teletypewriter system

Teletypewriters in action; transmitting and receiving weather data from the U.S.

Storm signals warning mariners in New York Harbor. The two flags in the center of the image are cautionary flags indicating strong offshore winds that could blow a vessel far from shore. In: "History of the Signal Service," 1884.

Signal flags used at Weather Bureau Display Stations. In: The Aims and Methods of Meteorological Work by Cleveland Abbe. In: Maryland Weather Service, Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1899. Vol I. Page 296.

Signal flags used at Weather Bureau Display Stations. In: The Aims and Methods of Meteorological Work by Cleveland Abbe. In: Maryland Weather Service, Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1899. Vol I. Page 296.

Storm signal In: The Climate and Weather of Baltimore by Oliver L. Fassig. In: Maryland Weather Service, Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1899. Vol. II. Page 304.

Weather Bureau Circular No. 1

"A Glass Weather Map of the United States Weather Bureau." In: "Our Weather" by Charles F. Talman, 1931. P. 224. Library Call Number MT151o.

"Weather forecasts for aviators" as bulletined at an airport station. Weather Bureau meteorologist preparing pilot briefing board at San Francisco. In: "The Realm of the Air" by Charles F. Talman, 1931. Library Call Number Library Call Number M/0030 T151r.

"A Weather Bureau Kiosk, in Union Square, San Francisco." In: "Meteorology" by Charles F. Talman, 1922. P. 320. Library Call Number M/0030 T151m.

A meteorologist at the console of the IBM 7090 electronic computer in the Joint Numerical Weather Prediction Unit. This computer was used to process weather data for short and long-range forecasts, analyses, and research.

View of the electronic computer complex at the National Meteorological Center.

Teletype operators at the U. S. Weather Bureau Communications Center.