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As Gensini explained

  We started digging into the data a little bit and lo and behold we started to find these very subtle shifts in counts of tornadoes away from the areas of the Great Plains and further to the east.”   Lightning crackles over a truck stop in New Mexico in 2014. (Mark Robinson) There is good evidence to support this, although scientists are still trying to understand why. But Gensini is not the only atmospheric scientist that accepts the emerging evidence. Harold Brooks, senior research scientist from the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma, agrees with these findings. “We do know also that there’s evidence that the jetstream pattern has changed over the last 40 years,” Brooks told TWN.   Flying debris is always the number one danger in tornadoes. This 2x4 punched right through the window and the passenger side seat of the car. Luckily, no one was in the vehicle when the tornado struck the city of Jefferson, Missouri. (Mark Robinson) According to the recent research pub