Weather Severe weather can disrupt our lives with little or no warning. Unfortunately, Middle Tennessee is frequently prone to damaging storms leaving devastation. These severe weather safety tips address what actions you can take to protect you and your family. Inside it may have swirling winds that can reach up to 300 miles per hour.
Tornadoes can flatten houses, buildings, lift up vehicles, and shatter mobile homes into splinters.
Tornadoes can strike at night, as well as the day, and you may not be able to see it, but it is said to sound like a thousand trains. A tornado watch is given when weather conditions are favorable to the formation of tornadoes, for example severe thunderstorms. A tornado warning is given when a tornado funnel is sighted or indicated by radar. Because tornadoes can form and move quickly, there may not be time for a warning. That is why it is important to stay alert during severe storms.