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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Tornadoes usually don't just appear from nowhere. We had several days of warnings about the potential tornado risk. In the end, it was a couple of wimpy F0 and F1 and one house was hit with a F2 that lasted a few seconds and was gone in Wayne, OK. They won the negative lottery.

So one house and some street signs and trees were torn up in Oklahoma and the news shoots close ups of the damage and makes it sound like entire counties were leveled.

The biggest baddest meanest tornados ever recorded hit Moore, OK. With 300+ MPH winds. It killed many, and devastated a 1/2 mile wide strip for a few miles. Bad as it gets, yet 1/2 a mile away is full civilization. Electricity, water, food, gasoline and medical care. In the hurricanes and earthquakes, floods, forest fires, mud slides, entire communities are devastated and it only with other states helping that the recovery can begin. Tornadoes are a very very localized event. Bad pookie if that is your area. My mom lived to be late 70s and she never once even saw a tornado and never had any damage from one. They really are rare for any location, well except Moore, OK.

there's a big difference between "conditions may be right when the storm gets here" and "we see one, it's headed down the road and will be here in 24 hours." And when conditions are right there might be one, or none, or 20.