[PapaNew]

So if it’s coming at the side of your car, is it better becasue you have a better chance of driving out of it I guess? Seems like it wouldn’t matter if it was one of those half-mile-wide deals I guess.

[RegulatorCountry]

Trying to outrun a tornado in a vehicle can be a very bad idea and is not advisable outside areas that are largely flat with few visual obstructions and a pretty well-developed network of roads. Even then, it's a very bad idea if you can find reinforced shelter of some kind, rather than attempting to outrun it.

If you were to try that in a place that had a lot of visual obstructions and meandering rural roads with no particular compass heading, you might find yourself running right into it and then turned into a missile. More of the debris falling away from large tornadoes that you might have seen in storm footage are cars than you realize.

For instance, below is the remains of a vehicle caught in the El Reno tornado, driven by an experienced storm chaser with two other passengers. It was a Chevy Cobalt 4 door compact sedan. All were killed.