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What Caused Spring?s Explosion of Tornadoes? (Emergency Management)

Quoted: ?We?re trying to figure that all out,? said Jon Martin, professor and chair of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?We have a renewed sense of urgency and interest in this question after this horrible spring. Whether this is part of a larger cycle is very hard to discern simply because the record of actually counting these things and having reasonable statistics is not that long.?