So until then, when you hear the tornado sirens or tornado warning, take cover immediately.
Another band moved east from the Chicago area through Ohio, at one point prompting a tornado warning.
They turned out to be so severe that a tornado warning was issued.
It said a tornado warning was issued as radar indicated a possible tornado moving from Kingfield, Maine, to Bingham, Maine.
The weather service issued a rare tornado warning as a line of thunderstorms raced through New Hampshire into western Maine.
"I'm not the type to stand in the closet for a couple of hours because there is a tornado warning, " he said.
The National Weather Service said a tornado warning was issued as radar indicated a possible tornado moving from Kingfield, Maine, to Bingham, Maine.
Knowing that the atmosphere could produce a strong tornado, they immediately issued the tornado warning as soon as the Doppler radar started to show low-level rotation within the storm.
The PGA Tour's website reported that the thunderstorms in Orlando, Florida were so severe that the large media center tent had to be evacuated, with a tornado warning issued.
The deployment of the Doppler radar system in the early 1990s by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration extended tornado warning lead times from five minutes to their now-annual average of 12 to 14 minutes.
Several people did not take their boats out off the water at the Westerly Yacht Club, which was flooded by early morning and being bombarded with heavy rain, high winds and even a tornado warning.
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Moore resident Chazlie Jones and her family heard the shrieking tornado-warning sirens begin on their drive home shortly after 3 p.m.
Meanwhile, Moore resident Chazlie Jones and her family heard shrieking tornado-warning sirens go off on their drive home shortly after 3 p.m.
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But, even as a little girl, she was always first to jump into a closet during a tornado watch or warning.
The local TV stations on Monday night said residents had as much as a 16-minute warning, which is longer than average for a tornado.
This warning was 16 minutes before the touchdown of the Moore tornado outside of Newcastle, Oklahoma, and nearly an hour before the end of the tornado some 20 miles away.
Tornado deaths during the past 50 years have declined considerably, indicating our forecasting and warning skill has improved considerably.
Even the force of a hurricane, which at least has a long wind up and warning time, can't match the explosive and random fury of a tornado's touchdown and destruction.
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