Tornado Safety & Awareness

What does a tornado warning mean?

• A tornado has been spotted by observers or indicated by weather radar.

• A tornado hasn't been spotted, but conditions are favorable for tornadoes to occur.

• It's a new Discovery Channel special on storm chasers.

• The conditions will be right for a tornado to form within your area in the next day or two.

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If you're outside with no shelter, where is the safest place to be during a tornado?

• Under a bridge or overpass.

• Hug a tree.

• Laying flat in a ditch while covering your head.

• Find a vehicle and get in it. Stay low and cover your head.

If you don't have a basement, which of the following choices is the safest shelter during a tornado?

• An interior room (closet, hallway, bathroom, etc.) on the lowest floor of your house away from windows.

• If one is available, in an outside garage or shed.

• The North wall of the house is always the safest.

• If you have a fireplace try to crawl into it. Use it as a shelter.

What should you do if you are in a car during a tornado?

• Try to outrun it if you can.

• Get out and away from the car. Find a low ditch and lay flat in it. Cover your head.

• Find an over pass and climb up the embankment of the bridge. Stay low.

• Stay in the vehicle.

True, or False- Trying to outrun a tornado in a car is always a safer choice than seeking shelter.

• True

• False

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True, or False. You should evacuate a mobile home even if it has a tie-down system.

• True

• False

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Collectively, the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska, where tornadoes occur often, are all called

• Tornado towns
• Storm centers
• Tornado Alley
• Cyclone counties

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Where do tornadoes start?

• Over the ocean near the equator
• In the clouds that create blizzards
• In the clouds of severe thunderstorms
• Any time that it rains

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Tornadoes form on every continent of the world except for

• Europe
• South America
• North America
• Antactica

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Tornadoes are measured using which type of scale?

• Richter scale
• Bathroom scale
• Fujita Scale
• Mercator Scale

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