I've seen a few ropes on the ground in my day and run from a few more. Scariest thing to me about tornado's is storms that come in the night. Can't really get a feel for storms in the dark. You can still hear them, but can't see where you are relative to the path.
That is when lightning is your friend. Lights up the sky.
I once worked for Severe Storms Laboratories during one thunderstorm/tornado season. One night things were really popping. I was at the Piedmont site and El Reno reported a funnel cloud. Ra-ob control radioed us and said it was coming right for us. It was dark, dark, dark. We couldn’t see a darn thing until the lighting struck. We could hear it, and it kept getting louder as it approached. I was scared. It missed us a bit to the north, but we never saw it.
Nothing like hearing an approaching tornado at night. Shivvers..
I hear ya...
We had one come through here in Hampton Roads, VA a few years back. It hit in the late afternoon and cut a swath through a neighborhood and grazed a hospital. The thing that freaked out everyone was the idea it could have hit at night.
Here’s an idea: let’s stop funding some of the BS stuff we fund with our tax money and spend it on research and development for tornedo survival structures and better warning systems...