Oh, if one comes near you, I can’t imagine the terror.
I have heard it sounds like a freight train, your ears pop etc.
I have been through some really scary storms with big hail, very high winds etc. I still would take it over an Earthquake, but probably because I’m USED to it. I grew up with bad storms all the time.
But, not tornadoes....lots of warnings but never one that came close enough to notice. If you are close to one though, it is scary as all get out.
I’ve seen about a dozen tornadoes. Closest was about 300 feet. Luckily, I was inside and the wind wasn’t more than 80 miles per hour at the house. Scary is when the vector doesn’t change, but it just gets louder (never happened to me).
Worst one I didn’t see was less than a mile away. They were building houses where the trailer park used to be, and I guess the tornado was frustrated at not having trailers to play with. Oh, there were no building supplies on site afterwards. They found a few tiles three blocks away.