What's inside the TORNADO Act? How can it make Arkansas safer?

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A bill recently filed in Congress aims to improve how we forecast and understand tornadoes.

It's simply called the TORNADO Act (Tornado Observations Research and Notification Assessment for Development of Operations Act) and Senator John Boozman is one of its major supporters.

The 18-page legislation has a lot of demands for NOAA and the National Weather Service when it comes to updating technology and looking at how it communicates tornado risks. It would also authorize $11 million toward tornado research.

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