The False Alarm of a Tornado Warning

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Whatever causes a tornado to spawn, it often happens when that dancer is in the dark. Researchers are not always sure if the tornado forms from the storm cloud down or from the surface of the earth up. A lot of times this process is either invisible or opaque. It's like a magician's sleight of hand trick.

2023 has been a record-setting year for tornadoes, and these storms came with barely any warning. So to better understand tornadoes, scientists might need to confront more of these storms head-on.

This episode originally ran on July 12, 2021.

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