It started yesterday.

I woke up to sirens in Birmingham Monday night.Turned the TV on and they were tracking 2 tornados.
One was coming right at me....People at the receiver where I was parked were knocking on my truck telling me to come inside.
I said thanks and went back to sleep.
Born and raised in tornado alley....If it got real bad I would have run for cover but I don't freak out over it.

 

My first year driving I drove through Indianapolis in a storm that was producing tornadoes, what I didn't know at the time was that the storm would catch up to me later that night as I was sleeping, pretty scary, never saw a tornado that night but the truck was rocking big time. Some of the worst rain/wind I've ever seen to this day though.

 

Bridges are the last place to go in a tornado.

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/safety.html


My android phone came with an Emergency alert app that is tied to the gps. You might look at the apps that come with the phone and see if it is there. I have my gps location turned off.

I carry a small weather alert radio for years. I had to replace it after 6 years.

http://www.amazon.com/Midland-HH50-Pocket-Weather-Radio/dp/B000P708NM

 

Where tornadoes are present, so is large (and dangerous) hail. A bridge can be a savior if you can get under one before someone else. In an actual tornado event in the immediate area, I would not want to be out of a vehicle and under a bridge mainly due to flying gravel and debris, but I would consider it safe to be in a vehicle and under a bridge as a tornado passed over or nearby.

I've chased 5 years and literally "interacted" with Ef2+ tornadoes on several occasions and if you're going to be stuck INSIDE the vehicle and literally ran over by a tornado of any size, being under a bridge will give you at least a little chance of survival, but being in the open, there is little chance. I don't care what they say. You may as well be moving trying to put distance between you and the tornado -IF- you have access to current radar and know what is going on and if there is a reasonable exit option.

I generally don't recommend you be near side glass and vulnerable in a vehicle but sometime you have to do what you think you have to do and if trying to move to out of a possible path seems an realistic, do it.

However, I will restate, NEVER leave a vehicle and get under a bridge if a tornado will be passing within 1 mile of your location. The inflow and outflow winds alone (will be well away from the tornado itself) can pick up small gravel and other loose objects and and move it horizontally at high speed and under a bridge things may get funneled into your location.

 

I was driving during a tornado watch once and the sky was actually green,very strange as I've never seen it before