As a kid I thought it would adventurous to see a tornado and a volcano. The place I was staying got hit twice when I was in college. Then another huge one hit Texas when I was working there but didn’t where I was living. Can’t say I want to see that ever again.
Then, in Baraloce Argentina, we got covered with ash when a Chilean volcano blew about 15 years ago. That was enough for me....
Jarrell? Or Witchita Falls? Wichita Falls was in the 70s. Dallas and Waco come to mind.
Lived in WA when St Helens erupted. I am perfectly OK with never being close to an active volcano again ... and I was 80 miles away. We lived with that mess for years. There were a couple inches of ash at my place. Short term we had to wear masks (think COVID) as a minimum, and was not uncommon to see full face filtration masks. Years later, driving down the road would still kick up dust clouds of ash. Ripped up engines (ash is extremely abrasive to the innards of an engine).
Lived in Colorado just outside of Weld County (tornado capital of the earth). Watched plenty. One time flying out of Stapleton, there was a cloud to cloud tornado that formed about 2 miles to our right. A bit unsettling.
Also in Colorado for what was considered at the time the worst hailstorm in American history. Cars left outside looked like golf balls and cedar shake roofs were reduced to kindling. https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/historic-denver-hailstorm-was-called-worst-in-american-history/
Also lived thru several big earthquakes in Seattle.
Earthquakes, over 7 would be the worst, simply because they occur more frequently than volcano’s, and the way the scale works, every single digit increase represents a 10x increase in intensity. You do the math. You honestly question if you will be alive in 30 seconds.
That said, I would expect 95% of the population of the Seattle area to perish if Mount Rainier ever blew, and it would not be a pretty nor fast death. Both are essentially unavoidable. With the Volcano, not only would you have the choking ash, but lahars (pyroclastic mud flows up to 100 ft high traveling at 60 mph) coming down every river bed. Tacoma, Puyallup, Sumner, Olympia ... would simply cease to exist. Rescue operations via air would not be possible. Nothing can fly in an ash cloud for more than a minute or two, but it would not matter because everything they would be looking for would be under 10 - 20 ft of boiling mud. Once it cools it is essentially concrete. In more positive news, at least the ash cloud would prevent you from seeing your approaching death.
Tornados are avoidable however. Nobody with 2 functioning synapses should ever get caught or killed in a Tornado. Usually the same goes for hail, but the 1990 storm was so freaking fast that people were caught on the Gondoloa ride at Elitch Gardens and it was sunny when they boarded.