Our current paradime for warning for tornadoes is something called worn on detection, meaning either it's indicated by radar or somebody in the field has phoned in and tand reported it. If you issue too many tornado warnings, people start to not trust them as much. We need to bring that false alarm right down so that when we do issue a tornado warning, we're extremely confident people are actually going to take action.
Most people get about eight minutes' advance warning of a tornado. This episode of Vox’s Unexplainable podcast explores how scientists need to confront more of these storms, head on.
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