We have a weather radio, we also have numerous APPs on our phones.

6/7 years ago we had a nasty heavy line of storms coming at us... which isn’t rare. Common occurrence in spring.

Straight lines winds hit ... The hail was coming down for 2-3 mins ? It was the size of softballs no lie ..... we suddenly felt all the air literally being sucked out of our house. My husband and I just looked at each other. I said .. we are going to die. Suddenly it was quiet.

Went outside, the ground was just white... the tornado formed right above us and less than 1/2 mile away it destroyed 3 homes, many barns and a lot of livestock died. It was middle of the day the people were at work or school so no injury or deaths.

aftermath our 2 cars were totaled, we had hundreds of holes in our roof, we had to put up new siding on 3 sides of our house , hellish job. We had a metal roof put on.

There was never a warning it spun up so fast.