How scary this must be!!
Once in my life, I witnessed a tornado from VERY close! We were making a trip around Lake Michigan (it was in '84, I think), and suddenly, the sky turned grey, purple, red, all scary and very dark. Our car was moving and almost blown away, although we were satnding still! We saw the ttonado pass above us; next day we heard that it had touched down only 25km from where we were.... !!
I was scared to death, but NOT my husband; he even was about to get out of the car to take a picture, but I didn't let him ; he still feels so sorry for not having a picture of that "beautiful purple" sky.... Men...............