Most fatalities occur when the victim is in a mobile home or vehicle. Even heavily tied down mobile homes are no match for a tornado. Most mobile home parks have a community shelter or designate a place for safe refuge. Pay attention to these recommendations before severe weather strikes- learn the locations of the shelters and make sure the rest of your family also knows where they are. If your trailer park does not offer either alternative find a close-by building of substantial construction and plan to go there in the event of a severe weather warning.
Overpasses also become a collection point for the debris generated by tornadoes.
At each someone died. All seven persons who sought shelter from the tornado at one overpass suffered injuries- six were blown out of the underpass and one died. At another, a dozen people were seriously injured and one person was dismembered. Her body was not found until seven days later under 6-8 feet of debris. The last fatality was that of a man who sought shelter under an overpass while staying in his automobile.