[metmom]

You can't hear the sirens with 120-200 mph winds, hail and rain (& debris)coming at you. I don't care where you are. That is what happened in OK on Sunday. People couldn't hear the sirens until it was too late.

If conditions are that severe, nobody has any business NOT being in a safe shelter. People should automatically presume the worst. There's hardly much difference between those conditions and a tornado anyway. And they need to hear sirens????

[kcvl]

Those conditions don't start out like that. They come up very quickly especially if the tornado is surrounded by a blanket of rain & hail as the one in OK on Sunday. There was no time for them to go anywhere except to take cover in the best place they could find. It didn't do much good because everything was wiped out in a F5 with 200+ mph winds.

F5 - Incredible tornado: 261-318 mph:

Strong frame houses lifted off foundations and carried considerable distances to disintegrate; automobile sized missiles fly through the air in excess of 100 meters; trees debarked; steel re-inforced concrete structures badly damaged.

[kcvl]

Greensburg, Kansas, devastated by an F5 category tornado on May 4, 2009

[kcvl]

F5 Oklahoma tornado May 3rd, 1999

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trr5HG6swKg

[kcvl]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5VRPgybP2M&feature=related