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friday june 11th 2021 i'm jackson bird thanks to a new study that sequenced the genomes of

several types of wild melons, we may now know the origins

of the watermelon. But we still don't know how tornadoes are formed. And that's a problem.

Plus, in a bid to continue dominating all Halloween-themed playlists, Danny Elfman released a new punk rock album today,

his first since 1994. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

Growing up in Tornado Alley, watching the sky turn an eerie green quickly followed by the screeching of my town's

emergency sirens was a routine part of my life in the springtime. I spent the better part of

several birthdays as a kid sitting in a line with my classmates along a cinder block wall in one of the

elementary school's windowless hallways that was designated as our tornado shelter.

But for all the time I spent waiting for tornadoes to hit when I was a kid in North Texas,

they almost never did. Vox reports that the false alarm rate for tornadoes, as issued by the National Weather Service, can be as high as 70 to 80%. But when they're right, people often only have a few minutes to take shelter.

The lead time for tornado warnings has actually dropped in recent years down from 13 minutes in 2011 to just 8.4 minutes over the last decade.

That's literally the difference between life and death for the 68 people

on average who are killed by tornadoes every year in the U.S. And even for survivors, their homes

and entire towns are often destroyed, resulting in billions of dollars of damage each year,

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