Have you ever been in a tornado warning?

I grew up in Oklahoma, so I’ve been in a number of tornado warnings. I have seen tornadoes. I have seen the devastation afterward. My family did nothing out of the ordinary other than stay indoors. If we had heard one approach, I suppose we would have moved into the interior hallway.

Yes. One time when I was in Oklahoma. We were at my grandmothers house. Three of us squatted down in her claw foot bathtub for quite a while. A tornado did not hit that day.

Nope. Living in California and Nevada, we’re immune from most severe weather events. Wildfires are the main problem here (along with earthquakes), but I haven’t yet had to evacuate because of a wildfire.

Yes and a couple of times had the funnel cloud go by near me (on the other side of a motel I was staying in) or once it skipped over and came back down and few thousand feet away.

We had one in Alabama once while we were watching television. It was late afternoon and it had grown unusually dark. I stepped out the side door and looked up to the sky and the clouds were a dull greenish colour. It was quite ominous and threatening and I wondered where the best place to hide would be but the tornado never came to anything at least not in our vicinity.

That green means hail.

Yes. Several times while living or traveling in the Midwest.

Yes, four years in Colorado, we had our share. My house was never damaged, but there was regularly damage in our community.

Many times, I’m also familiar with the green sky.

Yup. Many times.

Many times. They’re basically constant, as hurricanes/tropical storms approach. We expect actual tornadoes when the storms hit. Just part of the fun…

Yes. A tornado hit my home. Insurance paid for new windows and a roof.

Yup. I’ve been down in my tornado shelter more than once when I lived in Tennessee because of tornado warnings. Sirens sounding, bad storm outside. Luckily, my internet worked down in the shelter.

Where I lived in TN the warning sirens sounded in the entire county all at once, so sometimes the actual tornado threat was 20 miles away. When it was the other side of the county, even though my county was under a warning, I didn’t do much except listen to the TV or radio to see if it was really coming my way.

During tornado season in Tennessee there were constant watches. Almost daily there was at least a storm watch, and then actual tornado warning were maybe 2–5 a year in my county.

In the parts of Florida I’ve lived in most recently there are tornado warnings about twice a year. No sirens, just a little message across the screen on my TV.

Georgia. A couple times a year – had a tornado warning just last month. I don’t do anything special, just hunker down and hope that the power stays on.

The closest a tornado has ever come to my house is about 1.5 miles.

Last year my daughter’s school was on a trip about an hour and a half away. When we returned, there was a tornado in the area. Long story short, the end result in my area and surrounding areas were road closures, power outages and many trees were downed or sheared right off in the middle. I was happy I wasn’t in my house during all of this, I was on the bus (luxury bus, not a school bus) on the highway, which maybe wasn’t that safe of a place but being in my small house surrounded by trees would have been pretty scary.

It still amazes me, a year later, to drive around and see those trees sheared off in the middle, rows of trees next to each other that were literally chopped in half, with the bottom part still standing.

Now there is a push for power companies to cut and maintain trees that are near wires.

Nope never but I guess that goes with living in the interior of B.C among the mountains,lots of forest fires though and even being evacuated once for a fire that was coming straight at our town.

Yes, at Wrigley Field in Chicago. They made us go down to the concourse where the food vendors are. We were sheltered for forty five minutes. They never stopped selling beer.

We were shopping in western Canada’s biggest mall ( West Edmonton Mall)with its domed GLASS ceiling and we were all evacuated because of the Tornado coming close by.
Fortunately it took a different path and if it had hit that Mall the glass would had impaled the shoppers! The sky green!
We immediately went home ( two blocks away ) and stayed in the lower area of the apartment building for shelter.
Was amazed that not one animal or bird made a sound…as usually barking and bird sounds always..so nature knows before we do that something is wrong.
It was an extraordinary experience especially in a large city as mostly its in the outlaying areas that this occurs.
It cut a swath in one area of the City ( industrial area) and hit directly at a trailer park that resulted in many deaths. It happened in July on a Friday and its referred to as“Black Friday” now.

Never. I guess Nature considers our snow storms a fair trade-off.

No, but I saw one fly over me once.

When I was small, and living on the farm, we had a bunch of close ones. After, farmers would go out and see what was missing, and what was new. Also, we were on a party line, which made it easier to get stuff back where it started. Everyone on the party would pick up, and conference what they knew, and what still needed to be found.

I was under a nado once when I was driving a cab. The warning came out and I got my lowest point I could find. It never touched down, but it made a lot of noise going overhead.

I was in one once. It hit just as I finished eating a cheeseburger at Wendy’s. The manager got us all into the walk in freezer. While we waited it out, somebody pounded on the back door. The manager let them in. It was the husband and two kids of an employee. They were dishevelled, and traumatized. He told his wife he got the kids into the pickup as soon as alerts came on TV, and before he could start his truck, their mobile home left. He said they were still sounding alerts, and this was the only place he could think of to go.
When it was all over, they were uncertain if there had been three different tornadoes hit the same Colorado town, or just one that zigged and zagged through it multiple times, but they had definite multiple trails of damage. I was on my way to California when it happened. Leaving town, the carnage was unbearable to see. I drove the next couple of hours feeling like I would puke.
During the time in the freezer, there was crying, praying, ears popped. When the little am radio said we could come out, the power was out. Wendy’s was still standing. The adjoining service station had a gathering of survivors. There was a man who got caught on the road as it happened. There was half a highway sign that plowed into his front passenger window. It caved in the door it had hit so hard. I don’t know how he managed to keep it on the road. The kid working in the gas station was told he couldn’t go home because it wasn’t there anymore. His sister was freaked out because she couldn’t find their little dog. Not an Oz reference. Anyone with out of state plates were told by police to get on out of town.
My gut still wrenches when I think of that day, and it was just shy of thirty years ago.
When I watch Twister, I get a special kind of feeling when they tie themselves to a pipe, and see a nado from inside. I only heard and felt the one I rode, but I can feel it all over again when I see the scene. It does more than make your ears pop. The rapid pressure chances makes the rest of your body feel kind of like being sloshed around in a pool real hard. Innards slosh around in you, and muscles and joints kind of feel a tug this way and that. It was a wild ride, and I was just sitting there on my box of fries.

When you experience the power of a twister first hand, you never again take those sirens lightly. Still, they are fascinating, and I believe that if I had a chance to pop a selfie with one a few miles behind me, I’d probably go for it.

We’re starting to get pop-up tornados in Connecticut. Totally unfair. Having to deal with hurricanes is bad enough.
One recently took out a state park.

https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Sleeping-Giant-remains-closed-while-reopening-is-13745151.php

I’ve lived in this house since 1998. I’ve been down in the basement one time for a tornado. Another time I sat at the top of the steps for a while.

A while back my son and his wife and 4 kids were driving when a tornado hit. They booked it to the nearest house….but no one was home and the doors were locked. They hid behind the house in the truck. My son was fully prepared to break into the house to get his family to the basement, but it never quite got to that point.

We get tornadoes, floods (it’s flooding now) and earthquakes.

I live in very Northern California, and yesterday there was a huge tornado nearby. My sister has quite a picture of it.

Oh I want to see it!

Missouri so of course. I enjoy the storms, tornado’s are just part of it to me. Healrhy respect more than fear.

I feel the same way. BUT I have also never been IN a tornado. Came close, though.