It was a weird week for the storms. 23 tornadoes over a few days, and then a storm of just high sheer winds. Some areas south of us by 30 miles has some bad hail.
Tornadoes are ranked on the Fujita scale.
https://www.weather.gov/oun/efscale
If the tornado just his a empty field and tosses around a few hail bales, it gets a very low rating even if it was a big mean funnel. It is pretty complex.
Some of what dropped funnels are called QLCS tornadoes and come from a line of storms and not the supercell as most do. The QLCS storms can just appear with little warning. The can see the line that is making them, and there is a warning that tornadoes can form and to take precautions.
We had stuff like medications and my briefcase full of insurance papers ready to go to the cellar, but we never did because the storms were all south of us again.
All of the network TV stations go to "wall to wall" coverage non stop, no commercials, just reports from RADAR, storm spotters. That can go on for many hours.