I understand. I moved here from the Pacific North-Wet when I was a seventh grader and remember being terrified of tornados. I remember we had a health class on weather preparedness. On one test a question was something like, " A tornado is about to hit. What do you take to the storm shelter with you?" I answered something like, "food, water, a flash light, batteries, a first aid kit, ect., ect., ect. The teacher said afterward, " That was a trick question. The correct answer was, "Nothing, just get in there." I questioned him about it afterward and he said something like, " Jerry, The stuff you mentioned would be fine if you're going to be stuck out the wild for days. A tornado is going to be over in about 15 minutes. Just get yourself in the storm shelter. Don't take time to get all that stuff."
Most tornados are pretty isolated events. Granted they're horrible if one lands on top of you, but they don't have to miss you by very much for you to not have much damage. In 1997 we had 3 tails on the ground not more than 300 feet from my house. They lifted when they hit my tree belt and didn't touch back down until they'd gone about 200 yds. By the grace of God all we had from that was superficial damage even though 1 tail had to have been right over my house.
All of that said, please be praying for the people in Pilger. Most lost everything they owned. Two lost their lives. The damage to one family's business alone was estimated to be over $1,000,000