xkcd #3267: Types of Tornado Alert
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I hate the unearthly sound my phone makes when the weather service issues a tornado harbinger.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3267/
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2026
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Schrödinger's Tornado: at any given location on earth there both is and is not a tornado
Heisenberg's Tornado Principle: you can know tornado's position and velocity within error margins. i.e. you can know a tornado's location, but when you go to check it out it's somewhere else.
50% chance of tornado
https://xkcd.com/2370/