So the fall and winter are more active than many may think. However, warnings may get less attention then. “What we are finding in the research is that spring tornado warnings work well because people expect them and they know what the warnings mean, but any other time of year, they don’t expect them and they don’t know what to do with warning information,” said Dr. Laura Myers, who has done extensive research on weather warnings and their impacts as a social scientist and the director of the Center for Advanced Public Safety at the University of Alabama. “Fall, winter, and severe thunderstorm winds and tornadoes don’t make sense to people so they don’t tune in to the warning process like they do in the spring and when they do get warnings they tend to take them very lightly.”