There's not really all that much danger of tornadoes here. I'm just within the bottom 100 miles or so of Tornado Alley. No one I know has ever been hurt by one ... 'course it just takes the once

I've never seen one in person, which is A-O-K by me. I have a buddy from Oklahoma who says he hopes he's seen all of 'em he will ever see though.

Here we usually just get hellish rain and wind and the rare monster hail storm. One hit Ft. Worth about 12-15yrs back with softball sized hail that wasted windows, cars, a cuppla buildings in down town and caught a buncha people outside at a Mayfest, which got pretty bad in a hurry for them, though I don't think anyone died. Millions of $$s worth of damage in less than 10 minutes with no more warning than that it just starts to rain hard.

The storm I mentioned here the other night had 60-80mph winds and we get thunderstorms with some lightening like you wouldn believe from time to time. It's pretty wild when a crack of thunder rolls across the sky for up to 30 seconds and ... seein lightenin go nearly completely across the horizon instead of just down is really trippy