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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

My grandparents on both side of the family all lived over 70 years in Oklahoma. Only one of them ever saw a tornado, and it was off in the distance, while they were in Texas. None of them ever had tornado damage. My mom never saw one, and dad saw one in Florida.

I have seen just three, and two of them were at the same time. They were side by side, and just messing up a wheat field, and likely F1 or F0. One was close to my house, and I have a photo from a frame of video the guy across the street shot, of my house and the tornado looks like it is in my back yard, but it was actually 1.5 miles south. I watched it form from a cloud that looked like an upside down Bundt cake pan. The tornado dropped down just a couple of miles south west of us. I listened carefully and could not hear any sound from it at that distance. It went south of us, and tore up the roof of one house, and tossed some cars around in a parking lot of Frontier City amusement park.

I really wish I had taken the photo of my wife. She was sitting in the bathtub, with my autocross helmet on, with her purse and the two dogs in her lap. It was obvious to me it was not really a threat to us unless it took a sharp turn to the north, and it just went east.

There was one that hit two miles north once. It was wrapped in rain. Half the neighborhood was outside looking for it. The local TV helicopters were over us shooting it for TV. We usually have lots of warning for any real threat. It is possible for the little F0 tornadoes to pop up, (or down) and hit a house or two, and then fade away. The tear up siding and mess up the trees, but rarely do any significant damage except to mobile homes.

You can keep your reality to yourself mister. I'm from California and have formed a idea that you've got tornados on every street corner and cows caught in the high tension power lines. I saw it on the news

In return, you can expect the ground to open up and swallow us Californians in the big one any minute now.