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If a Tornado Watch is issued:
- Stay informed of weather conditions and advisories
- Consider altering travel or special event plans
- Heed all warnings
If a Tornado Warning is issued or if a tornado threatens your location, follow these tips to help protect yourself.
- IN YOUR HOME: Seek shelter in a small interior room. A walk in closet or bathroom would be a good shelter.
- Bring in a blanket or pillows, any kind of protection you can use to cover yourself.
- Crouch down, protect your head and body as much as possible.
- Have a pet? Put them in a pet carrier and take them with you into your safe room.
- IN YOUR CAR: Abandon your vehicle and find suitable shelter in a sturdy building.
- If a building is not available, leave your car, seek shelter in a ditch or depression.
- DO NOT STAY IN YOUR VEHICLE, most fatalities happen in vehicles and mobile homes.
- DO NOT PARK UNDER AN OVERPASS! It is one of the worst places to be.
- Best advice, if a Tornado Warning is issued or if bad weather appears to be coming, do not travel at all. Seek shelter and wait for the storms to pass.
- IN A MOBILE OR MANUFACTURED HOME: Abandon the mobile home for a better shelter
- Seek shelter in a ditch or more substantial building
- Most tornado fatalities occur in mobile homes. Find better shelter.
