This report is one of a series that profiles the emergency management and homeland security statutory authorities of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and three territories (American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Each profile identifies the more significant elements of state statutes, generally as codified. This report focuses on the state of Florida.

The results obtained from gust and draft velocity measurements within thunderstorms for the period July 24, 1946 to August 6, 1946 at Orlando, Florida are presented herein. These data are summarized in tables I and II and are of the type presented in reference 1 for previous flights. In two thunderstorm traverses, indications of ambient-air temperature were obtained from photo-observer records. These data are summarized in table III.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Texas rangers baseball team which apparently will be sold to a group of local businessmen.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about political sabateur Donald Segretti who was released from prison after serving 4 and half months of a 6 month sentence for violating campaign laws during the 1972 Florida democratic primary.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about George Foreman, heavyweight boxing champion of the world who had no trouble in maintaining that title for his own in a successful defense of his crown against Ken Norton.