Aw that'd be great to go out and chase tornados. I have a interest in meteorology and would love to go out and study/track these powerful storms. There are so many tornado warnings out there that are followed by no tornado; thus leading people not to take the warnings seriously. Doppler radar is great but what would be great if we can further more lessen these needless warnings and have them replaced by severe t'storm warnings.

Part of the reason Josh's team and countless other reseach groups are doing these studies is to increase warning times, as well as figure out how to be more accurate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_warning

It's actually a good thing if we have those needless warnings. Better to be safe than sorry, right? It takes people like these brave storm chasers to get the information we need to make better predictions.

The problem is and has always been that we don't completely understand tornado formation, and just about the time we think we have the basics, Mother Nature spins one up that doesn't follow the rules. I've been out chasing MANY times when it looked almost certain we were going to see a tornado - and it never developed. But it could have - the NWS has to issue warnings/watches as pro-active. If people don't pay attention - they are not real smart.

Better predictions are right, warezexe. The weather is always predicted wrong in my area. If they predict severe storms, you'll be lucky to see a flash of lightning most of the time. When they don't predict a big storm, it really hits hard and no one is prepared.

I agree with being better safe. I guess it will just take time and like yall said and more studying.

It is beter to be safe then sorry, however a lot of us in the midwest myself included tend to do as we saw in the last episode; we go outside to watch when we know the warning is in our area.
The other good thing about this year is we had better warnings. Instead of putting out a warning for the entire county as they once did causing sirens to go off over the entire county when the storm was miles away we now had polygonal warnings so that sirens in cities and warnings on television would report only the area in the path of the storm, I know this helped a lot in Oklahoma this year. These new warnings allowed us to take warnings more seriosly instead of going outside to watch the clouds to see if the warning was for real.