I have lived in Oklahoma since 1978. We had one almost chasing us!
We had just moved in back in March of that year. It looks like it is in my back yard, but it was actually 1.5 miles south of us. And yea, that is me walking around in the driveway. I was listening with my hands cupped to me ears and could not hear a thing. No roaring train sounds. It was cool in that it looked like a stack of pancakes with that tornado dropping down from the middle. My wife was in the guest bathroom, in the bathtub, wearing my autocross helmet, with two dachshunds in the tub with her. I so much wish I had taken he picture, but she threatened me with bodily harm when I was asleep if I took that photo. The photo is a screen capture from a video my across the street neighbor shot and took to the TV station.
It did touch down in the parking lot of an amusement park and it tossed some cars around.
Now we have an underground storm shelter in the garage. We can get down there easily with the 911 parked above it. In the 20+ years of the shelter we have only gone down there once with storms approaching. We got it all ready last night, but they all went way south of us.
I saw a pair of tornadoes off in the distance near Stillwater, OK returning from Hallett, OK. Those were off to the side of me, and I was happy to take the interstate south and GTFO out of the area.
My grandparents on both sides of the family liven in Oklahoma from 1900 until the died and they never saw one. My mom never saw one either.