So while ENIAC's creators wanted to use their new computer to help predict the weather or the stock market, it wound up helping America's fledgling space program get off the ground.

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I'm one of a number of researchers at NOAA who are working on ways to combine all of the environmental, radar and other weather data into a computer model that will attempt to predict when the tornado will develop and how strong it will be as much as an hour in advance.

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