The most important thing for a tornado to form is temperature, humidity, wind direction and speed. It's difficult to get this complete data set because tornadoes don't stay on the ground for a long prut of time. And so to be able to marshal all those instrumentations and planes or censors, it's very difficult.
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.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained
Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices