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For the next month, more than 100 researchers will crisscross the Great Plains to gather data about how tornadoes form.
For the next month, more than 100 researchers will caravan around the Midwest hoping to get in the path of a tornado. Roger Wakimoto is director of the Earth Observing Laboratory for the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He tells host Steve Curwood that despite past research, scientists still don’t really know how tornadoes form.