Kansas tornado (IMAGE)

University of Kansas

Kansas tornado

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A tornado touches down near Dodge City on May 24, 2016. The current lead time on issuing tornado warnings is about 15 minutes. More lead time from the Warn-on-Forecast system could save lives and property across the Great Plains and beyond, University of Kansas researchers found.

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Lane Pearman, Wikimedia Commons

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