§8513 Tornado warning improvement and extension program

Summary

Create a tornado warning improvement and extension program with help from the U.S. weather industry and universities. The program’s goal is to cut deaths and money losses by making tornado forecasts and warnings more accurate, useful, and timely, including predicting tornadoes more than 1 hour ahead. The program must study new sensors (for example, acoustic/infrasonic, phased array radar, and mesonets). Within 180 days after April 18, 2017, the Assistant Administrator for Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, with the National Weather Service Director, must write a plan with research, development, technology transfer, resources, and timelines. After the plan, the Under Secretary (through those officials) must send Congress a proposed budget at least once a year.