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I don't want to deal with any more hurricanes. I'd rather take an earthquake or a tornado.

William Phillips

Since we are really close to where tornado alley is we can get a tornado just like they do. It makes it more important.

Caitlyn Gardner

Your wedding may be in May; you booked the facility in December; but what if a month before the ceremony, the facility was destroyed in a fire, flood, or tornado? What would you do? Most people also opt for coverage of the additional expenses associated with arranging alternative services.

Robert V. Nuccio

It looked like a tornado was inside of the house.

Wesley Hollingsworth

The tornado touched down, then lifted off, then came down again south of downtown.

Richard Payne

The things you would do to prepare for a pandemic are the things you can do for any emergency. The difference being that a hurricane, tornado or blizzard generally hits in a limited area for a limited time.

Christine Pearson

It looks like a tornado, but the tornado's 400 miles wide.

Johnny Thompson

When you get those kinds of conditions and you get a jet stream that is moving right into that area, that is exactly what we're looking for in environmental conditions that can produce a ... tornado outbreak like we had yesterday.

Dan Mccarthy

The fact that we had to close early on Thursday night, Friday night, put 12,000 people into buildings on Saturday because of tornado warnings, set you back a little bit.

Tim Quigley

We still have much to do in the aftermath of the tornado, but we are confident that Ellis Park will be in good shape for its 2006 meet.

Steve Sexton

We get it all here, don't we? In 2006, it's guaranteed in Wisconsin we will have a tornado. We'll have a flash flood. You're going to have some thunderstorm damage.

Rusty Kapela

The chances of a tornado coming near you are very rare. The event that happened here in Oklahoma City is something that even in the metropolitan area hasn't happened for probably 50 years.

Harold Brooks

If you see a thunderstorm in early May in Nebraska, say, your immediate reaction is the possibility of a tornado. Elsewhere, the seasonal cycle falls apart quickly. It never goes to zero threat, but never gets all that high either.

Harold Brooks

What we found after the tornado was the other homes were not tied down as well as the standards the state had provided for there to be tied down.

Roger Lehman

We've had a lot of strong evidence to indicate that it probably was a tornado as opposed to just strong wind gusts.

Geoff Coulson

If we have trouble with cell phones and land-line telephones, they serve as our communications element, ... We lost cells and land lines in the 2001 tornado, so we used them as our primary form of communications, with radios in different vehicles.

David J. Moore

That's the best way to get a short warning of a tornado or severe weather.

Nicky Kelly

Everything was gone. I could see debris from the trailers and garage everywhere. It finally hit me that it must have been a tornado. I figured they were dead or hurt really bad, so I took off running for my best friend?s house.

Matt Suter

I wish (Thursday) that we had a tornado warning out ahead of this tornado, but we didn't. It was a very small tornado, quickly spun up.

Jeff Johnson

Everybody is horrified at what they can do, but the truth is the research quantities we're studying are quite modest. And if the building they're in got hit by a bomb or an airplane or a tornado or something like that.

Tom Curtis

Conditions were favorable for a tornado, but we dodged a bullet today.

Greg Smith

Just as one of our spotters to the north called in that he'd spotted a tornado, another one from the south said he saw another one. But they went around and pretty much left us alone.

Dee Smith

The devastation reminded me of the aftermath of an F4 or even F5 tornado. Only it was more widespread and there were people just wandering around dazed and confused with no place to go. Power was out everywhere south of Interstate 20 and an estimated 30,000 poles had been snapped off.

Kevin Baer

I was watching the first tornado coming right at my house and worried about getting my family in the basement. I've never seen one coming at the house like that. It really got my attention.

Rick Mullaney

The main objective is to help prepare everyone to receive tornado warnings.

Joe Paul Boone

Many of us feel called. We hear about something like a tornado happening, and we want to help people. A lot of the time, people have spiritual needs after a time like this. After each job, we like to ask the owners of the house to pray with us. A lot of people tell us the prayer does them more good than anything else.

Jerry Hill

In one area (of Camilla hit by a tornado) there are about 200 mobile homes and there are very few of them that are still there.

Jay Powell

We think a tornado touched down. The (house) is really not a big concern - all this is just too big. The (children) are my biggest concern, but to me, I can do anything. I can move or start over.

Kris Edwards

This is going to be the equivalent of a 40-mile wide F3 or F2 tornado.

Jim Butch

Tornado warning sirens were blaring, young kids were scared and we were wondering where we would be sleeping for the night. A (tornado warning) was issued ... and all of the kids started lining the first floor hallway (of the hotel) to get away from the windows in the lobby. We were told I-65 around Nashville was closed.

Joe Abraham

We had been up about 500 tickets sold per performance and we were down Thursday night. The tornado watches hurt us. But overall I am pleased.

Billy Powell

In 40-some years, I have never seen a tornado warning for the New Orleans area.

Opal Tyler

I have little compassion for people in trailer parks who refuse tomove after getting tornado warnings. How hard is it for them torelocate? Their house have wheels.

Carlos Mencia

But we're comparing tornado reports, which are probably inflated, with confirmed tornadoes for previous years.

Daniel Mccarthy

Our house had an extra bedroom or two after we had to rebuild because we were hit by a tornado in 1985, so it worked out well.

Marietta Bachman

When there is severe weather, like a tornado, you don't want to be tying up the emergency phone lines.

Todd Sherman

The outdoor warning sirens in Douglas County are being sounded at this time. The National Weather Service has issued test tornado warning.

Bob Newton

Steps to a new home 'cause I'm not leaving this place. A tornado could come, and I'd still move back here.

Jennifer Orand

It appears that a tornado did touch down ... and went right across the top of our county.

Aaron Williams

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Ambrose Bierce

The storm seemed to be stalling out. But just as you're thinking it was calming down, it spawned a tornado.

Dan Fulscher

We've been able to improve our warning system. Our records on tornado warnings, hurricane warnings, on flood warnings have been improving.

Conrad Lautenbacher

I remember seeing a Discovery Channel series in which a school of fish would almost violently swirl around like a tornado while feeding.

Matthew King

The radar showed a signature of a tornado. There's a certain pattern on the radar that points to the existence of a tornado. It's usually pretty accurate.

Norman Hui

In the last five years, we have started honing in on things that help us distinguish tornado-producing conditions.

Harold Brooks

We have two built in days for rain or if something happens. We really don't mind playing in rain, but a tornado might be a little too much.

Jack Hebner

We received a report from a volunteer storm spotter of a tornado in (northern Toronto). But we haven't been able to verify if there was any damage or if anyone else saw this.

Geoff Coulson

This is where I was actually standing when the tornado came over and you can see where it passed by and hit this water tower and see if you can notice how it knocked the paint off the water tower; that was freshly painted. Three tornadoes that came within 10-minutes of each other and I'm guessing time.

David Kenney

You can climb a mountain or jump out of a plane but can never tame a hurricane or tornado - that's for sure. It's one of the last frontiers that no one will ever conquer.

Roger Hill

A tornado came through here.

Debbie Anderson

If you live in a mobile home, during the tornado watch you need to be getting ready to leave, perhaps to the home of a friend who has a basement.

Barry Gooden

We have some people that even go into action prior to a tornado hitting. If it was a big enough situation, we would have resources from Disaster Services get involved.

Wayne Schipper

But this was the worst. The fires did more damage and two people lost their lives. No one died in the tornado.

David Estes

In my case, Sunday, I didn't know that a tornado was coming because I was watching Spanish TV. The only reason I learned that we had a tornado was because a friend warned me.

Cesar Aguilar

You don't want to be in a vehicle when a tornado hits. It's too easy to pick it up.

Kent Prochazka

We had no communication, and it looked like a tornado had been through where we were.

James Parish

We don't have hurricanes, but when a tornado is coming we tell people to go down to the basement, ... How many people take videos of the twister instead?

Larry Reed

It's still just an anomaly, because when you measure tornado trends, you do it over a scale of decades, not three to four years. If this were to go on two to three more years, then you start to look harder. But it is something to note.

Frank Strait

There were more houses damaged by the tornadoes, but fewer houses totally destroyed. The tornado doesn't compare.

Sam Olens

It was a couple of hours probably. We did not experience a tornado. It was straight line winds which are just a concentrated area of wind that cause damage.

Ryan Buckingham

Nevertheless, Wyoming legislators will continue to explore other methods of providing support to victims of the hurricane, the Wright tornado and our residents who will be paying higher fuel and energy costs.

Randall Luthi

People were just not watching for tornado-type activity, and it caught a lot of people off-guard. We're lucky we didn't have more injuries than we did.

Cecil Whaley

We have tornadoes [nationwide] 180 days a year, every other day, and we have significant tornadoes probably about 60 days a year. It requires a fairly delicate balance: Even if you have a thunderstorm, you don't necessarily have a tornado.

Harold Brooks

Hey, Mark, you can't see the tornado now.

Ralph Moore

You just try to go about your daily routines. But I look at it, I don't know how to say this ... It's like the story about when the tornado touches down and all these houses go down but it skips just this one. It's one of those things you don't think about.

Chad Lavalais

I got called about 1 p.m. Friday, the day after the tornado hit Stoughton, but had to get some things from home before I left, ... Usually we have clothes, a can or two of beans and equipment ready to go so we can leave from where we are when a call comes.

David Weitz

The tornado watch has sort of whittled away. It did include Orlando earlier this morning and shifted southward. The threat has decreased here in Orlando.

Larry Mowry

This is nothing like a tornado in Arkansas. It's ten times worse because it's so widespread out there.

Tim Dean

I cannot stress enough the importance of calling the FEMA Disaster Assistance telephone registration number. This call is the first step in the recovery process for individuals and businesses for who suffered severe weather and tornado damages.

Tom Costello

Sometimes a storm on Doppler radar will be so obvious that it's severe that you pull the trigger on it and issue a severe weather or tornado warning. But there will be some days where you look at a storm and it's kind of ambiguous. It may be severe, or it may not.

Joseph Tomaselli

We've had it all -- hail, a tornado, floods, a dam break. I don't know what else we can get.

Tom Birchard

There's different ways to respond to all of these. For example, during a fire alarm, you leave the building, which is different than a tornado, where you shelter in place.

David Colton

They said (Katrina) acted like a tornado, hit and miss. Some houses are there, and some are not.

Sharon Thomas

If a tornado went over a row of trees and didn't hit a house, there was no way to estimate the scale.

Joe Schaefer

It's real important in the event like the power outage, a snowstorm, a tornado, a flood or anything like that to where it's difficult to get emergency personnel to where they need to go. We need to have a command center in operation so we can all talk and put together a strategic plan that is the most efficient and safest and try to account for all the citizens of Windsor the best that we can.

Terry Walker

Weather radios are absolutely critical for people to be alerted of tornado warnings, severe weather warnings especially in the over night hours.

Rick Shanklin

You've got to be prepared both a day in advance really to keep up with what's going on and the day of the event knowing that severe weather's possible and certainly when something specific like a tornado to developed.

Rick Shanklin

About twenty-minutes before the tornado got here, we got down in our basement.

Debbie Eaton

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Ron Sevart

The taller that storm is, the more air that is rushing up. And as that air rushes up into the storm, it is making those winds turn with height, and that spinning is what causes the tornado vortex that drops down out of the cloud.

Nezette Rydell

We were looking at 2,500 square feet in a basic metal building there, and this is 10,000 square feet in a building that was designed as a hardened structure. There's no way a tornado could ever take this place out because of the design and location.

John Luther

Still, the long-term average puts Kansas' peak tornado month as May. That's why early spring is the best time for parents to remind children about the family plan for what to do in case of severe weather.

Mary Knapp

They were on the air, and they had been struck by the tornado and the storms before we were, and they were just starting to get on the radio and use it as we activated our sirens. Once our sirens went silent, they could go back to normal.

Ernie Slottag

The insurance company determined it was a tornado. We've replaced everything. It took most of the front porch. We've rebuilt or replaced some walls, replaced flooring, the roof and the ceilings.

Elaine Beckham