TORNADO Act before Congress seeks better storm warnings

TORNADO Act Before Congress Seeks Better Storm Warnings

Source: (Photo by Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images) INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A professor who studies severe weather said Wednesday that congressional backing could help existing efforts to improve storm warnings. The Senate is once again considering the Tornado Observations Research and Notification Assessment for Development of Operations Act. The TORNADO Act would require the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National …

TORNADO Act before Congress seeks better storm warnings

Congress pushes for better storm warnings INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A professor who studies severe weather said Wednesday that congressional backing could help existing efforts to improve storm warnings. The Senate is once again considering the Tornado Observations Research and Notification Assessment for Development of Operations Act. The TORNADO Act would require the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Weather Serv…

What makes a storm dangerous and how warnings are issued

Our region is no stranger to strong and severe storms, including hail, tornadoes, damaging winds, and even flooding. But what makes a storm severe in the first place?

Tornado – first-look review

An entire decade has slipped by since the release of John Maclean’s debut feature, the frisky meta western Slow West, which, if nothing else, presented a savvy operator hankering to get his mitts dirty in the world of genre film. His belated return to writing and directing retains a dash of eccentricity and a fondness for folding up and repurposing convention like it were a little origami bird, but this sadly feels a lot more like a creaky first…