being injured is exceedingly slight" and that "we do not attempt to prevent that which is inevitable". They also wrote that the chance of being injured by a tornado is "one in ten thousand years".

In June 1899, U.S. Weather Bureau Oklahoma section director J. I. Widmeyer published that long-range forecasters in Oklahoma were sounding "unnecessary tornado alarms" due to "ignorant predictions" to residents in Oklahoma and that they were causing "frightened men, women, and children" to take shelter, despite