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Here’s the problem —- not only tornado warnings, flash flood warnings, and severe thunderstorm warnings, and these don’t even include those previous warnings, known as “watches”.
Here’s the difference — “a watch” means that condition is “possible”, supposedly a “warning” means “probable” or likely, and a lot depends on their interpretation of our friend Dopler Radar…
Take it away Wikipedia --  "A Doppler radar is a specialized radar that uses the Doppler effect to produce velocity data about objects at a distance.[1] It does this by bouncing a microwave signal off a desired target and analyzing how the object's motion has altered the frequency of the returned signal."