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Why was tornado forecasting once banned in the United States?

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Chapter Modern Meterology

Concerns that warning people about possible tornado formation would panic residents led the Weather Bureau to ban such forecasting off and on in the 1940s. As meteorology improved and tornadoes became somewhat less terrifying in their ability to appear suddenly, the ban was lifted in 1950.

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