TORNADO Act

This bill requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to improve how it communicates with the public about dangerous weather like tornadoes, hurricanes, and winter storms. It sets up a new office to make weather warnings simpler and clearer, creates research programs to modernize communication systems, and develops a plan to give people earlier warnings about tornadoes and severe thunderstorms. The bill also calls for studying what causes dangerous tornadoes, evaluating how tornadoes are rated, and reviewing what happens after major storms. Finally, it requires a government report on the National Weather Service's technology for sending out timely weather warnings.

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