Are there tornado warnings that are for sure tornadoes in the ground, absolutely! But not every tornado warning is a tornado actively on the ground. Tornado warnings are often issued proactively to give you as much time as possible to get to your safe place before the tornado touches down. Specially trained warning meteorologists main goal is to give you time. In the 1990s meteorologist were able to give you had an average of 4-5 minutes of heads up before a tornado arrived at your location. Now, thanks to hard work from the national weather service, the average lead time has increased to 13-15 minutes. And that’s for weaker tornadoes. For the strongest and most dangerous tornadoes, warnings now give you on average 18 minutes to get to safety before the tornado arrives. Warnings are important but nuanced and there is so much information in them beyond just “a tornado is in this area”. And the goal here is not for that information to be gate kept. In fact I would love for you to kno...