As a TV meteorologist, I guess I’ll use this opportunity to provide some counterintuitive advice.
If you are in a car and a tornado is imminent and about to hit you, it’s safer to get out of your car and into a ditch if one is close by. Cover your heads as if it’s the 1950s and a nuclear bomb is coming.
It sounds dumb, but can be safer than staying belted into your car.
Here’s some more detailed guidelines that are situational. A few comments were critical of me oversimplifying what is nearly always a complicated situation. Indeed, no decision is ideal during a tornado. I’d read this entire write-up.
cool_slowbro on April 30th, 2019 at 17:00 UTC »
Drive you fools.
cbandy on April 30th, 2019 at 18:12 UTC »
As a TV meteorologist, I guess I’ll use this opportunity to provide some counterintuitive advice.
If you are in a car and a tornado is imminent and about to hit you, it’s safer to get out of your car and into a ditch if one is close by. Cover your heads as if it’s the 1950s and a nuclear bomb is coming.
It sounds dumb, but can be safer than staying belted into your car.
Edit: https://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/safety.html
Here’s some more detailed guidelines that are situational. A few comments were critical of me oversimplifying what is nearly always a complicated situation. Indeed, no decision is ideal during a tornado. I’d read this entire write-up.
TheTwist on April 30th, 2019 at 18:21 UTC »
some video