Floyd C. Pate

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Floyd C. Pate was an American meteorologist who worked for the United States Weather Bureau and was a member of the American Meteorological Society.{{cite journal |title=About Our Members |journal=Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society |date=1 March 1961 |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages=189–230 |doi=10.1175/1520-0477-42.3.189 |publisher=American Meteorological Society|doi-access=free }} Pate worked at the U.S. Weather Bureau office in Montgomery, Alabama as a forecaster, then at the office in Lynchburg, Virginia, and later as the meteorologist in charge (MIC) of the office in Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands.{{cite journal |title=Lightning Damages in Alabama |journal=Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin |date=16 April 1956 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bB22FRQBWDcC&dq=%22Weather+Bureau%22+%22Floyd+C.+Pate%22+%22tornado%22&pg=RA8-PA15 |access-date=18 May 2024}}{{cite web |last1=Farley |first1=Robert F. |title=REMEMBER WHEN |url=https://greensboro.com/remember-when/article_6a21e4d9-851b-5204-b01c-74f5ecc3ea33.html |website=Greensboro News and Record |access-date=18 May 2024 |language=en |date=17 August 1991 |quote=Goldsboro native Floyd C. Pate was named to succeed J.P. Molen as meteorologist-in-charge at the U.S. Weather Bureau at the Greensboro-High Point Airport}}

Works

Pate is most well known for conducting a detailed case study on the 1945 Montgomery tornado titled The Tornado at Montgomery, Alabama, February 12, 1945. Pate described the tornado as "the most officially observed one in history", as it passed {{convert|2|mi|km}} away from four different government weather stations, including the U.S. Weather Bureau office in Montgomery.{{cite journal |author1=F. C. Pate (United States Weather Bureau) |title=The Tornado at Montgomery, Alabama, February 12, 1945 |journal=Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society |date=October 1946 |volume=27 |issue=8 |pages=462–464 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26257954 |access-date=27 May 2023 |publisher=American Meteorological Society|jstor=26257954 }}{{cite journal |last1=Bleeker |first1=W. |last2=Delver |first2=A. |title=Some new ideas on the formation of windspouts and tornadoes |journal=Archiv für Meteorologie, Geophysik und Bioklimatologie, Serie A |date=1 August 1951 |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=220–237 |doi=10.1007/BF02246804 |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02246804 |access-date=18 May 2024 |language=en |issn=1436-5065|url-access=subscription }}
In 1956, Pate, along with other meteorologists at the U.S. Weather Bureau office in Montgomery, Alabama, published an academic study titled Lightning Damages in Alabama.{{cite journal |last1=Komarek, Sr. |first1=E. V. |title=The Meteorological Basis For Fire Ecology |journal=5th Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference |date=1966 |url=https://talltimbers.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/85-KomarekEV1966_op.pdf |access-date=18 May 2024 |publisher=Tall Timbers Research Station}}

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