[American Constitutionalist]

Tornadoes are so unpredictable, never know when they are going to hit.
What is more frightening is being in a upstairs room in the middle of the night when one hits.
We had one hit our area out of the blue with no warning, one minute ? nothing, and in a few seconds ? heavy winds.

[MD Expat in PA]

Tornadoes are so unpredictable, never know when they are going to hit.

The one bright side is that severe storm and tornado and even hurricane predictions are so much better than it used to be. While they can’t pinpoint exactly where a tornado my come down, the NWS and the TWC was predicting this outbreak for days in advance. I was watching the TWC last night and they were pleading with people to keep their NOOA weather radios on all night and during the day and to stay aware of rapidly changing conditions and take shelter immediately in case of a tornado warning.

We had one hit our area out of the blue with no warning, one minute ? nothing, and in a few seconds ? heavy winds.

I live in PA, not exactly tornado alley and not likely to get big tornadoes but last year we had night of some pretty severe super cell storms and lot’s of radar detected tornados. I stayed up all night and was prepared to run to the basement of my apartment building to take shelter should a warning for my area come. Even an F-1 or F-2 could do a lot of damage to a building.