He says he’d advise people to stay at home, don’t go out if you’ve heard there are tornado warnings.
But unless the house is a virtual bunker, or has a cellar, you’re not much safer at home either.
Lucky kid.
Well...
Most tornados don’t get above EF-2, and even those that do usually do so only briefly. Any average build quality house in the US should be sufficient to protect occupants in an interior hallway from an EF-2, usually even in an EF-3. “Usually”. And an EF-3 will pretty much total most houses, even well built homes. An EF-4 is of course another matter, and God forbid one ever being in an EF-5. That EF-4 that went through the middle of Mayfield, KY, last December, wiped houses clean off their foundations, some off the property they were on.
I’m in the mid-south, and no way I’d ever buy a home without a basement or shelter — or, I’d add such.
The other factor beyond being safer in a home, etc., in most tornados, is that at home you can monitor the weather better. The TV coverage was very good, plus I was monitoring the Mayfield storm (zoomed in on a 25” monitor) online. I was yelling at my wife 20+ minutes B4 that monster hit Mayfield to call her friend there and tell them to get to cover. Luckily they were spared heavy damage - by about 150 feet.