Brit Reacts to American Tornadoes Are Scary... 

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When I was tiny, I was terrified of that siren. The sound it made was horrifying, and it was only half a block away, so the thing seemed to loom menacingly over the neighborhood. When I was outside playing, I would occasionally look over my shoulder at it to make sure it wasn't going to attack me. LOL

Using wikipedia for the european stats, the continent Europe has had around 969 recorded tornadoes since the year 2000. The USA has averaged around 1,200 tornadoes every year since the year 2000. It's genuinely insane how many tornadoes we get, and it's all due to geography.

Yes. I've seen a tornado with my eyes. It was weak and was skipping through the tops of the trees. Every time it hit the treetops it would sling branches and limbs everywhere.

Last week a city close to us here in Texas was struck by tornadoes and sadly people passed away, including a 2 and 5 year old from the same family. I have been through about 9 or 10 tornadoes and, though I love storms, I hate tornadoes. The sound of tornado alarms still give me chills. The 1994 Lancaster, TX tornado was the first one I experienced. We didn't even have time to make it to the storm cellar. My dad put us in the closet (2 sister, my mom and myself) as he stood over us for more protection. We were lucky that our house was not directly hit but it still traumatized my 10yr old self. The green looking sky, the sound of a train going over you, the pieces of hay or twigs impaled into the walls by the wind, the sudden calm before it hits? All that we have experienced multiple times. During the 2012 Lancaster tornado we went through, 18- wheelers were being flung around like toys. During that one I was working at a daycare, it was nap time and we heard alarms. We had to get all kids up, rush them to restrooms, and lay mats over them. Very scary. Tuesday morning at 6a.m we were awaken by tornado alarms going off. Thankfully our area just got very strong straight winds and not a tornado. Still, it did cause damage and a huge part of the city was without power for 2 days. Some inconsiderate thieves decided to take advantage of this and tried stealing my car, and this was during broad daylight!!!!! First busted driver side window and sped off. As I was calling to file report I noticed their car coming back. A guy got out passenger side and ran to my car to take off with it. Luckly I had the keys in my hands so I pushed the alarm button and that scared him and he ran back to the his car and they took off. Took pics and reported them. Tonight we are just under thunderstorm warnings. In tornado alley, where I have lived almost all my life, we know tornados are a possibility. I've had people ask why we don't just move, that it would be to stressful for them to go through that every year. The thing is, anywhere you go something might happen. We learn to be prepared but not live in fear.

I have been in 4 hurricanes , one of which , Sandy , completely flooded the small island where we live with a 17 foot high storm surge and did more than $150,000 damage to our house , and experienced one near miss by a tornado . The tornado was more scary than any of the hurricanes .Tornados move at different speeds across the ground , but rarely more than 50mph and they usually don't travel very far , many travel less than 50 miles . The wind WITHIN the tornado can be moving at 300 mph in an F-5 , the highest classification .

The tornado sirens are tested weekly at noon on Wednesdays where I live

If you're interested in real-time documentaries on Tornados and their effects, there's a series on Tornado Alley. The Joplin documentary is particularly impactful.

I live in North Texas, and I heard the sirens 100s of times and it’s creepy every single time 😭

The thing about trying to outrun a tornado is that speed isn't the only factor to consider. There could be debris blocking the road, or other people fleeing/gawking and causing traffic jams. You might be in a vehicle that's theoretically capable of escaping, but that's not going to help if you don't have a clear path of escape. Tornados can also be highly unpredictable, changing speed and direction seemingly at random. It's not unheard of for a tornado to backtrack on its path or suddenly cut sharp turns. If you're caught out on the road when one touches down, you'll have to make of it what you can, but leaving shelter and attempting to flee in a vehicle can sometimes get you in more trouble than riding it out in place.

When I lived in the Midwest, we had tornado sirens in our town. Federal signal Thunderbolt 1003T's to be exact. I can still hear those sirens even though I have not been "home" in years.

Tornados are just freaky. I’ve always lived in Tornado Alley many years ago, we had one hit. We rode it out in the basement. When we came out, we discovered we had lost the lid of our garbage can. The house next door was completely destroyed. By the way - I grew up in Iowa and live in North Texas and have never seen a tornado. When we hear the siren or get the warning, we take shelter. No pictures is worth the dangers

Our sirens are tested weekly. So we hear them a lot.

They test these sirens every month on the first Tuesday in areas that have tornados, so we hear them all of the time.

My brother and his family and his daughter and her family, live in OKC. When my niece was at the hospital in labor with her 1st daughter, the tornado siren went off. They had to move her bed into an interior corridor and she gave birth to her daughter during a tornado.

Our small town in TX was hit by a tornado a little less than a week ago around 11pm at night. The sirens were broken and didn’t go off. Killed 7 people including children. So very sad. I’m glad it missed us, and feel heavily for the families affected 😢

The cat in the beginning will only lose 1 life 😂

If there is a lot of lightening you can see a night tornado, but by the time you can see it you really should be in the basement or a room without windows. I was in a cheap motel in Nebraska as a little kid when a tornado came through . I will never ever forget that sound. One passed within 5 miles 10 days ago.

I grew up in northern Illinois. We had 'tornado drills' in grade school every spring. Twice as a child, I remember being outside playing, the sky going green, and mom calling us in to come sit in the basement, but thankfully we never got hit. There has been massive damage and loss of life over the years in towns in our region, but I don't personally know anyone who has experienced a tornado first-hand.

Yes. About a month and a half ago, laying in bed, relaxing listening to the rain, when suddenly the sirens sounded. Nothing gets you wide awake and on your feet faster than that. I've lived in tornado alley my whole life. The scariest one was experienced by a relative. Severe storm, tornado watch was in force, and while on the phone to my sister, she reported that suddenly the lights went out and sirens sounded. Terrifying to be standing there in the dark, not knowing where the tornado was.

13:13 This is the siren we have in my area. We hear it every Tuesday afternoon when they test it. They actually set off the Tornado siren for real a couple weeks ago. There was a tornado on the ground within a 50 mile radius of us, so they warned us just in case it made a sudden path change. They've been known to change directions extremely fast and with nothing in particular that would indicate to the weather team that it was about to do so. Luckily, this tornados path was predictable enough and it wasn't a very intense one. It stayed well clear of us, but we went to our basement anyway until our portable crank chargable weather radio gave the all clear for our area.

In my city, the siren goes off every clear/sunny wendesday at noon to test the sirens. I live right next to one and it is deafening

I lived close to an air force base. We had air raid sirens and more standard ones. The dissonance was the scariest part of waiting.

A nocturnal tornado passed very close to my neighborhood a few months ago. I couldn't see the funnel due to the darkness and trees, but I could see flashes from the powerlines it was hitting in the distance.

Our tornado siren goes off several times a year. Usually they're warning of impending tornadoes. And yeah, it's eerie, but it gets your attention. It means, get to our safe spot!

I live in Joplin Missouri the ef5 he referred to. I try not to think of that day. It was beyond horrifying and i don't even live in the part that got devastated....

I'm from and live in Florida, but I went to college in Alabama. While I was up there, I watched a tornado pick up a car and put it on top of the car next to it. I'll take a hurricane any day. You always know when they're coming and you have the option to get out of the way. Tornados just happen. Those sirens absolutely send chills up your spine.

Yes, I live in tornado alley. We had one hit 2 miles from my home almost 1 week ago and we also had 90 mile an hr straight line winds that can do just as much damage as a tornado the following Monday. We also had dvd sized hail this week.

9:54 - oh yes, I 100% remember doing these drills in school, exactly like they showed in the video. We were told to crouch against the walls in the hallway and cover our heads with our hands. I have no idea if that would’ve made any difference or not, and fortunately I never had to find out.

They typically test a tornado siren once a month at noon around here. We just recently had an F3 tornado pass by here and it missed us by less than a quarter of a mile. If you want I can send you some pictures of the damage so you can see for yourself.

I had a cat with a built in barometer. When she'd go hide in the bath tub you knew it going to at least rain.

I live within a mile or two of a tornado siren, they test them every first wednesday of the month at noon. Creepy sound, but I'm glad they're close by

I used to live in an area outside Ottawa, Ontario where the Emergency Preparedness Agency was. They had a civil defence siren that was tested every day at noon sharp. You always knew when it was lunch time because that siren could be heard all over town.

Tornado sirens in my location (central Iowa) are tested at noon on the first Saturday of every month unless severe weather is expected. They are tested even in the winter because tornados can occur in all season. I remember there was a strong blizzard in the area that spawned a "snownado".

May of 1986 a tornado went over our house in Porter, Texas on night about 2 a.m. It actually skipped over the roof of our house. There was a fully mature oak tree about 20 ft. from our back porch, and the entire top was twisted off the trunk like you would twist a head of broccoli off it's stalk. The bark was even twisted around the tree, and the top was laying in the back yard. Another large oak in our front yard about 50 ft from the house was broken in half, the top resting in the road, with the electric poles and power lines under it. I had ran upstairs to get my youngest brother because he was still in bed. At the top of the steps I stopped for a second because they were vibrating under my feet and the wall I had my hand on was also vibrating. When we got back downstairs, I was trying to yell to my mother that I had gotten my brother downstairs but no matter how loud I screamed, the words could not be heard. I could not even hear my own words. The wind was indeed that loud. It sounded like being literally next to a jet engine. The lightening was literally constant, a harsh, blinding blue light. You could have easily read a paper it was so constant. We had no basement in that house, so we just cowered in the hallway. Had the tornado not skipped up over the roof, I have zero doubt we would all have been dead. The next morning we went out, and you could see where the tip of the vortex had scoured the ground. The grass was gone, it was massive swirls of dirt along the ground behind the house, then it picked up, went over the house, and came back down again in the front yard where the scouring continued across the front of the property amd into the property across the street.

Yes we absolutely get warnings on TVs and our phones as well as the tornado siren going off. If you live within the proximity of a siren then you will hear the siren and the emergency alerts on your phone and TV. For those who live too far from a siren and dont hear it rely on the TV and phone alerts.

At night, you see the storm when the lightning flashes, making it seem even more menacing and unpredictable.

i live in Pennsylvania and we have had a few tornadoes here and there with long periods in between. Usually pretty tame they generally just rip roofs off of barns. Nothing like the midwest region.

I live in ND and have been in a few tornado warnings but have never actually gotten hit or even near hit. However, I did see my first tornado a few years ago and it caught me off guard. It was perfectly blue skies out my bedroom window when I heard the siren go off. I actually thought it was just a test until I realized it didn’t check out with the day and time. My bf texted me from work telling me that there was a warning and him as well as many of his coworkers and customers sheltered inside the walk in cooler. I lived in an apartment, so I walked out the main door on the opposite side of our apartment and saw the tornado in the distance. I literally froze for a solid 10 seconds. It wasn’t very large but still a crazy experience. I don’t believe it lasted very long and I think a farm yard got hit but not the house. Ultimately the city was fine. I did hear the other day a tornado popped up in an eastern city without warning. They truly are a terrifying marvel.

The siren in our town goes off every day at 8 A.M. and Noon, I'm guessing it's a remnant from the mining days here.

Tornado came within a tenth of a mile from my house. It skipped off the bluff I lived on, then decimated the trailer park by the river. We were huddled under my Dad's old oak desk in the basement as the sirens went on and on and on. The school bus normally picked up me and the other kid on my bluff then filled up with the trailer park kids, but the next morning, it picked up me and Kenny ... then just ... continued on to school the next day. It was eerie, even to nine year old me. A day or two later, they had cleared the streets in the trailer park. When the bus took us back there, it looked like war. Trailer homes were just piles of debris, tossed every which way. It was months before all the mess was cleaned up, with obvious spaces where trailers were demolished and not replaced. My school bus was half-empty the rest of the school year. Tornado sirens still terrify me even though I've moved out of Missouri to North Carolina, where tornados are much less common and most towns don't even have sirens. Your body still reacts to that sound with adrenaline when you've lived through that.

I live just outside of Oklahoma City in Oklahoma right in the middle of tornado alley the sirens are tested every Saturday of the year at midday 12:00 am. We can have tornados year round but spring is the most active season for tornados we heard the sirens almost twice a week this spring. We are just used to it. I have personally been in a tornado and seen several others.

The tornado sirens in my city do a practice test every month so we hear them all the time. They are super creepy!

If you are aware of a tornado watch in your area then get an alert on your phone a couple minutes before the sirens, That couple minutes is a lifetime. The last one to come through here was 15 years ago just far enough away to take out all the trees but no real damage to the house. We are slightly sheltered that helps but every year there are a few dozen warnings within 30 or so miles.

I have had pretty severe Lilapsophobia and it really effects my anxiety as I live in tornado alley. I wont go anywhere if there is a chance of storms, to the point if there is a bad storm i'll call into work, and If there are storms predicted overnight I wont sleep a bit because i'll be too anxious that i'll be caught off guard. The town where i grew up in in Oregon was hit by an ef2 then my parents moved us to South Dakota and 10 years later the little village we lived in was destroyed by another ef2, both were very very close to being rated as EF3...I DREAD hearing the sirens go off, even the monthly test causes my anxiety to spike. Needless to say I love the winter months and the snow storms it brings because it also brings with it at least 4 months of lilapsophobia anxiety relief haha

Oh yes we've had several tornados in our area over the years. The latest one was an EF4 in 2019. The U.S. has the most tornados than any other place on earth.

I live in Pennsylvania, on the Eastern side of the US. We also get tornadoes, but not as frequently as Tornado Alley. Maybe 2 - 3 during the spring. That green sky and train sound tells you how close the tornadoes are to you. Our tornadoes usually come with rain storms.

Yes it comes to your phone and also emits sounds when it hits “tornado emergency” level. We had an EF1 pass over our house in April this year. And I’m not in an area that gets tornadoes.

I live in Wisconsin last Saturday we had 8 tornadoes in my state alone. We are under an enhanced risk for severe weather today (Saturday we were not under an enhanced risk). Be prepared not scared. They test the sirens here every Thursday at Noon.

Tornadoes generally travel maybe about 35 miles per hour, but they can go much faster. The fastest tornado was calculated to be about 90+ miles per hour. Towns in our area do sound the sirens if a tornado is either shown on radar or by weather spotters. They test the sirens here once a month on the first Saturday of the Month unless there is stormy weather. I have never been closer that 15 miles from one or two. The area shown in the warning box does not actually show that the whole area will be hit, but rather that anyone within the area could get hit.

our tornado sirens are on our Elementary School, and they test them the first Wednesday of every month, I've heard it a few times, it scares me a bit

As soon as I heard that sound at the beginning I looked up. 😅 And yeah we are taught that at a very young age. Otherwise we wouldn’t be smart enough to go to safety in time to save themselves or others. Welcome to the tornado season in Tornado Alley. We’ve had 2 tornado warnings in TN And hit by an F4 Added with flood warnings with each one. The first one flooded my basement a bit. But my neighbors nextdoor had it worse. Bottom of a hill with a creek on the other side.

I live in the heart of main tornado alley, in Oklahoma. There was once a tornado not even a full town away, I'm talking this thing was a few miles outside of town, and everyone at my Job was in the walk in fridge. Someone rang the drive through, straight up tried to order a junior double cheeseburger. We had to tell him our grills were off cause he wouldn't leave until we answered. He was unconcerned.

15:35 Some also end up suffering from Anemophobia, the fear of wind, but that is much rarer.

I've had two truly icky tornado experiences and both were in the night. One destroyed part of our house. I was 12. That night is the reason I don't sleep when the conditions are right for a tornado in my area (or in my sister's or in my mother's).

I live in Grand Island Nebraska we moved here less than a year after the '80 tornadoes. The town was still being rebuilt at the time. There is a large artificial hill in a park on the west side of the city called tornado hill it contains debris covered with dirt. Kids now use it for bike riding and sledding in the winter. I was hit by a nite time tornado while attending a wedding in Omaha in 2009. We were sleeping in our motor home in a parking lot near where the wedding was. Two tornadoes touched down to our south they merged into one and started moving north tearing up a path though the Omaha suburb of Millard. It hit the parking lot at about 2:00 am. It side swiped the motor home rocking the bus side to side and pushing it about 3 feet to the left. It broke the windshield ad sucked the rolled up awning off of the bus and threw it across the parking lot. The Tornado was rated at an EF-2 it came out of nowhere in the dark with no warning the tornado sirens didn't sound until 2 minutes after the tornado lifted back into the sky. Aside from that experience, I have seen many tornadoes in my lifetime roughly about 20. I have even chased one. This year (2024) we have had over 150 tornadoes in Nebraska. A few made the national news and are shown in RU-vid videos. For example the Lincoln/interstate 80 tornado.

Tornadoes can have wildly varying speeds. Some can move in excess of 70 miles per hour (112 kph) and some can crawl at five or ten miles per hour.

I've been a trained spotter and chased tornadoes before, but sirens set my anxiety off every time. Always. I also lived in an apartment once that was right next to the siren. Truly deafening.

In my school growing up in Seattle Washington, USA we did similar drills after watching safety films, but it was for earthquakes. We had a strong earthquake when I was in elementary (grade) school. Pacific Northwest disasters are more likely to be physical ones like earthquakes or volcano eruptions then weather disasters (some flooding maybe from excessive rain maybe).

I live in Western Washington and like the UK, have similar odds of getting an EF1 or less. However, we do have tsunami sirens that tested once a month. They make the same noise as the tornado sirens

I've grown up dealing with Tornadoes! I live in an area where it's common in spring and summer

I live in TN and it's scary when the sirens go off

I mean, 2 minutes may not seem like much, but with lead time (the time between knowing to take shelter and the tornado arriving) hitting somewhere around 9 to 10 minutes for the last ten years, 2 minutes can make a lot of difference.

Couple of things: Where I live, the sirens are tested every Monday at 12pm. My city’s sirens talk to us which when I was a kid, scared the holy hell out of me because it’s a robotic type voice. The air raid sirens are still used and, in fact, I was in a parade last week and one of the floats was one of those big square looking ones with a huge control panel that this young girl and her dad were using to sound it off (not too much bc those things are LOUD) I’ve lived in the central US (tornado alley) my whole life and I’m SO thankful that I’ve never seen or experienced a tornado. I’ve experienced at least 3 derecho’s (straight-line winds) though which are also quite devastating sometimes.

I had a close call with a tornado in 1976 that struck West Bloomfield Michigan. I lived in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and on the evening of March 20th I decided to drive over to my friend's house that was near the intersection of 13 mile Rd. and Orchard Lake Rd. When I got within a mile of his house, the wind started blowing so strong that it almost blew me off the road. I also remember the sky being a weird greenish color. When I got to his house, I wasn't there for more than 5 or 10 minutes when his mom came out and said a tornado had just hit the intersection of Maple Rd. (15 mile Rd.) and Orchard Lake Rd. two miles north of his house. We probably shouldn't have, but we jumped into his car and drove as close as we could to the intersection. We had to park about a quarter mile away and walk to the intersection. I just remember when we got there being shocked at the destruction. Most of the buildings near the intersection were totally destroyed. I remember seeing quite a few vehicles flipped over and crushed. Thankfully, the tornado was short lived, it only traveled about 4 miles but it was estimated to be an F-4 so it still did a lot of damage. In the end a 15 year old girl was killed when the car she was riding in was picked up and thrown and another 55 others were injured. There is actually a video about the tornado on RU-vid.

When I was in elementary school my family lived in Omaha which is directly in tornado alley. We didn’t have a basement but like everyone else in our neighborhood we had the crawl space under the house that you had to go outside to get into. We had so many tornado warnings and my dad who was in the Air Force was out of town a lot. He didn’t like us having to go outside like that so he made us a trap door in a long hall closet we had. Us kids thought it was really cool but it did make it easier and safer for us to get down there. Luckily the closest one ever got to us was a few blocks away and that was terrifying because we could hear it! It sounded like a freight train coming our way. In school we had tornado drills a couple times a month. I’ve also lived in hurricane central but there’s really no comparison between the two systems. Except I think hurricanes are scarier because of how long they last. A tornado will typically come and go fairly quickly but a hurricane will pound at you for a good 10 hours And yes, we had tornado sirens and they sent chills down your spine! Still does decades later and I haven’t heard one in person in probably 40 years

There was a tornado in my town in west Texas earlier today. Luckily it touched down on the outskirts of town and headed away from us. We also had golfball and baseball sized hail.

I've survived 3 of these monsters. I was in the May 3rd F-5, I was in the May 8th F-4, and I was in the May 20th EF-5. Our sirens sound every Saturday exactly at noon every week. I still live in Moore, Oklahoma. It's been my home ever since I was 15, now that I'm 39, it's gonna remain my home.

I'm in the upper Midwest of the states and can absolutely verify they are terrifying! You never forget the feeling. Thank you as always for the video and thoughtful commentary

The good news is that normally we have several hour warnings. Tornados need certain conditions to form, so if it’s looking like the conditions are forming, that’s when they send out the tornado watch. At that time you prep your stuff. Then if rotation is seen (on radar or by sight) they will send out the warning.

I got struck by a tornado. Luckily my house was very old and apparently built well so it stood but I cant say the same for the giant oak that was in my backyard. That sucker fell and somehow managed to miss every single house at a perfect angle. If it was slightly off, people would have died. The tornado moved down the road and took off the roof of a store, and moved cars in a Walmart parking lot.

My dog knows what the siren is. We've had to get in the basement enough when they go off she knows. We have test sirens to make sure they are working once a month and she will bark to see if we need to go to the basement. She knows when the sirens go off and we say lets go and her name she takes off to the basement door. She will also go sit under a table heavy duty table in the basement when the sirens go off. The scariest one we have ever heard we could hear 4 different ones at the same time and it looked green outside, we luckily didn't get hit with a tornado in our town.

Skywarn Spotter here. Tornados can vary in forward speed - almost nothing to the fastest one recorded - 94mph. I was half a mile from a tornado outside of Nashville in 2017 - it was impossible to see until it was almost on top of me. And I too was stuck in traffic. No getting around other vehicles, nothing. Tornados are rated based on the damage they do. This is the F scale, otherwise known as the Fujita scale, which was revamped and is now the Enhanced Fujita scale, so there are F tornadoes, and then now EF tornados that came after that change. They range from EF0 to EF5, which leaves nothing behind but an empty slab foundation and can rip asphalt off the ground.

My town used its tornado sirens every day at 6pm. It was always the sound that signaled that it was time to go home for dinner.

They test those air raid sirens the 1st of every month where I live. Interesting fact about those sirens, they were originally created for the UK during WW2. Those were the same sirens that would sound if a bomb was going to be dropped on citizens, so it would be warning people to get underground. After the war ended the UK didn’t have much of a need for them anymore, so the technology was brought to America. Edit: typo

There's a certain jump scare factor to nocturnal tornadoes, I was in an ef3 that ripped through jedf city missouri in 2019 at midnight and with every flash of lightning the tornado grew bigger and bigger and closer, and also spun up several satellite tornadoes that ripped up 3 ft deep scars in the ground it was really intense

Oh yeah a tornado hit my town directly last month but thankfully everyone was ok. We've had more then we'd like to admit

Tornadoes don't move as fast as the winds that make up the tornado itself. It is possible to get ahead of the storm as long as the roads are clear.

a few months ago we had our first tornado warning and event of the year.. it was 4am when the alerts went off on our phones of a tornado warning.. i got everyone up and hubby turned on the news and there was a tornado north of us and they were reporting on the damage that happened just that quickly.. scary especially at night..

Fridley, MN 6 may 1965; imagine being the oldest of 5 kids..dad goes outside to.look at skies. Finds golf ball sizes hail. Rushes in. Yelling everyone to hit the basement. sw Corner. All 5 kids flung across brothers twin bed. Dad holds a blanket over us. He got an ankle scratch. Our brand house was gone. Complete. A fireman took pity on us, let's us use his vehicle. Through treacherous dpwned electric wires, we got to his car. Through roadblocks galore we finally got to his friend's house. Lots of disarray followed. Mom was 6 mo. Pregnant Baby. turned out fine We built a new house 2 years later and baby Alice came along. Very blessed. .

I live in Oklahoma, and they test the sirens weekly, its on Thursday at around 11 AM

its actually been a busy year this year with tornados here in the states also yes we have the siren the first thing i do is look at the clouds if it storming

Several tornadoes have dropped within 5 miles of where I'm typing this, including one that hit a building I was working in. Where am I? Just outside of Northampton, Northamptonshire, UK. Just off the M1. Okay, none of them have been killers, but one tore a section of roof off a warehouse, and another wrecked a roadside cafe enough that it was condemned. Britain DOES get Tornadoes, Birmingham was hit by an EF2 a while back (2007, IIRC), and there's been a couple in London too. We also have our own Tornado Alley - mainly Northants, and the surrounding counties - pretty much an oval area stretching from the Severn Estuary to the Wash. Going by Tornadoes per square mile of land, Britain gets more tornadoes per year than the USA. The difference is that most of ours are small, and we don't get long-track tornadoes, the ones that last minutes to hours. Combine that with the different building methods used - brick walls Vs. wooden, Tile roofing Vs. shingles, etc - and the tornadoes we get that DO hit populated areas, don't do massive damage...

I live in tornado alley we hear em every spring.

The sirens are tested the first Wednesday of every month here in Dallas. Usually around 11am-noon. We have 8-10 tornando warnings a year and usually no tornado. In 47 years, I've only had my house hit by a tornado. That was when i was 9, and it was just shingles, and i small piece of roof ripped off. I believe it was an EF2. It did much more damage around the neighborhood, but nothing near what an EF4 or 5 would have done

Sirens tested mondays noon. Im in Andover, we got hit twice. I remember both) First one had no sirens at all and caught a whole bunch of people off guard. It backfired a bit. The sound of sirens became normal and blend into the soundscape of everyday life til you hardly notice them anymore. Then theres another tornado that caught a whole bunch of people off guard. You: Just sitting there and only getting up to see why the goddamned sirens are still going off goddamn it and stalking over to yank the goddamn curtains on the goddamned window cuz its been going for five goddamed minutes now and why th----oh. Tornado: *in the backyard*

A ef4 tornado hit my town in 2013 barely missing my house

We saw a giant water spout here in Florida and at the time we didn't know if it was a tornado bc we were a couple miles in land and didn't have a view of the ocean. Damn near crashed the car in a panic. Terrifying. Can't imagine an actual tornado tearing through the city.

They test the siren assuming good weather every Tuesday, and I still get woken up (night shift) every noon on Tuesday freaking out. This is because I used to live outside the town, and you could only just hear the sirens of you really tried.

The sirens get tested the first Monday of every month, so you hear them monthly. What’s scary is when they happen while you’re asleep. I’ve been in a few

last week there was a tornado warning early in the morning and the sirens outside woke me up and went off multiple times (mostly as a way to tell people to get the fuck inside lol).

I get tornado warnings where I am in Texas when the weather is bad . I’ve lived in Texas my entire life & have never seen one however I grew up by the water on the Gulf coast of Texas & have been through several hurricanes .

we've already had over 1000 tornados this year. all Emergency Warning for weather come to our phones because you might not be near a tv or radio to get the weather warning.

They test the sirens every Wednesday afternoon. If bad weather is in any part of the county the sirens go off in the entire county. Now alerts go out on your cell phone.

This video is basically dated compared to this year's vast number of tornadoes that have swept through the midwest--"Tornadoe Alley"--this spring. Even my city's sirens went off one evening. At 73 years old, I've never seen one. They've landed in communities surrounding us.

Never been in a Tornado, though I been in a lot of Tornado warnings seen a few funnel clouds. I also almost was unlucky enough to be in one of the worst Hurricanes in US history. I moved a month before Hurricane Andrew hit FL when I lived there in 92 when I was 8,

Where I live the sirens are tested the first Saturday of the month .

Tornadoes have gotten pretty close to me last year, about 15 minutes away by car

I grew up with the A10 port and I wish the town I'm in now had them because they were easier to hear. I can barely hear our Tornado sirens from MY HOUSE without wind and thunder. We recently had one come down behind my house but the tornado sirens never went off it happened late fall 2023 and they didn't need officially acknowledge that our county and the neighboring county were hit by a bunch of them until March 2024. I never heard the Tornado there was no train sound it was just wind and rain with the rain hitting my house from every side in what seemed to be every direction and then my house started getting pelted by acorns and walnuts but we don'thave walnut trees in my yard, oh yeah, it all started with purple lightning and no rain. It was so dark despite the lightning I couldn't make out the cloud formation that would warn me because the lightning was also blinding me.

I was literally in the changing room at a store when every phone in the area started to sound an alert. Not a common thing in Calgary Canada.