When severe weather threatens your community, understanding how tornadoes form and are detected can literally save lives. You'll learn how advanced radar systems provide crucial minutes of warning, and why knowing what to do next is paramount.
Tornadoes are violently rotating columns of air that extend from a thunderstorm to the ground, forming from specific atmospheric conditions.
They typically develop from supercells, which are powerful thunderstorms with a deep, persistent rotating updraft called a mesocyclone.