I hate tornadoes. Even being in the middle of an F0 is hideous. My family and I were in the local diner ten or fifteen years ago when an F0 landed smack on top of it. It never got registered as a tornado, but aside from the telltale pressure drop you could look out the windows on the left side and see rain going horizontally one way, and look out the windows on the right side and see rain going horizontally the other way. Only one thing does that. No real damage, so only F0, but {shudder}.
A funnel cloud about ten miles wide (basically a supercell just decided to drop straightdown) dropped four or five half-mile wide F4s, on our town and the one next door and down the road, back on April 1st ten years ago or more. The actual touchdowns bounced around, merged, converged, and were strong enough to spin off their own satellites. Funnels were on the ground from Paragould, AR to around the Tennessee River. Killed the daughter, husband, and baby, of one of Mom's best friends, and flattened two neighborhoods in our own town (that particular funnel jumping over our house). We weren't there for it, but weren't far enough away to suit me! (I had argued strenuously to just drive twenty miles south while we still had plenty of time; went to an aunt's basement instead.) Night-time so nothing to see, other than solid horizontal rain from the basement windows as the cell passed over for a minute. Had the main funnel touched down it would have been wider than Reno, OK, five times as wide easily. (That's probably true of other super-funnels that never themselves touched the ground but spun off vortices that did.)
