Phantom accidents -- The Ruskin Heights tornado -- No one ever knew it was coming -- "Nice people, but odd" -- The government gets in gear -- The "town that died in its sleep" -- The Paul Revere of Grandview Junior High -- The end of the beginning -- Storm chasers -- Tragedy -- Fujita -- The day TV weather grew up -- St. Louis and the holiday weather hotline -- The microburst mystery -- Delta 191 : why weren't they warned? -- The Delta trail -- Weatherdata -- America gets dopplerized -- Hurricane Andrew -- Katrina, part one -- Katrina, part two : inaction in action -- Katrina, part three : murder by bureaucracy -- Greensburg : capstone of the modern warning system -- Where there's life, there's hope