[caww]

Thank you xjcsa...I wondered if possible for a person to be swept up and swirled about in a Tornado...and live thru that. Apparently generally they cannot.

So many houses checked for those who hunkered down in them are gone, along with the people who were in them, so I wondered if a house was gone would it have been possible they lived just thrown miles away.

These tornados were especially violent so I doubt any could have lived if swept up.

[xjcsa]

So many houses checked for those who hunkered down in them are gone, along with the people who were in them, so I wondered if a house was gone would it have been possible they lived just thrown miles away.

Yes, it's possible, but they would not survive that. In the Parkersburg, Iowa EF5 tornado in 2008, things like engine blocks from cars and (in one case) a *large* (highway-sized) snowplow attachment were found several miles from town. No people were thrown any serious distance in that one, but lots of debris was.