His house was about half a mile away from the tornado's track. They were at their son's school when it got hit. He wound up with horse mashing his mini-van in the parking lot. The hospital where they worked got wiped out.
They decided it was time for a garage shelter after that. Haven't used it since.
Tornadoes can be ferocious storms but your chance of getting hit are not that great. The military got me to Arizona where we never needed to worry about that. But, some of the summer dust devils here can be like EF-1s.
FIRST P.D.S. TORNADO WATCH OF THE YEAR ISSUED FOR HALF OF OKLAHOMA. HEADS UP OKLAHOMA....
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0146.html
[The hospital where they worked got wiped out.]
If that was 2013 I saw that hospital