The thing about tornadoes is that they do destruction in a NARROW, relatively linear area. My Uncle in Omaha had a tornado come right down his street, take out every house across the street, come over and destroy the neighbor's homes on either side of him, plus the guy behind him, and press on down the street. His house received no direct damage, but had plenty of stuff land on and around his house. Didn't even break a window!
In May '03, a tornado rated at an F4 took out my shop and severely damaged my house, with me, the wife and kids in it at the time! We were in the downstairs bathroom - the only room undamaged in the house. Pretty freaky day, that was! No "freight train" sound - it was more of a big shop-vac picking up rocks and marbles. Took 20 seconds to destroy everything, and it was on the way down the road.
I'll take the risk of a tornado over a hurricane any day, any way! Hurricanes take out whole STATES, plus you get the fun of flooding and tornadoes going along with that. No, thanks. I'll stick with tornadoes, wildfires and earthquakes.
