Yes, we did a lot on our minds as children.
Mine are grown up now, but I was thankful that they didn’t have to live their whole childhood under the cloud we did.
Having different drill “rings” and destinations could have been scary for children—second guessing what you heard;confusion over where the right place was, etc.
Tornado - 3 short blasts, break 3 short blasts, get in hallway, go to knees, cover head
Fire drill - 2 short blasts, break, 2 short blasts, break, get in line to go outside.
Thinking back, yeah, it did scare me as we were always afraid it was real. For the tornado, it was real at least 4 times I can remember. We did tornado drills at home with my dad having a whistle.