[brianpan]

The person you are replying to is saying the opposite. Watches are common (and the sky everywhere will warn you). But a tornado WARNING comes without enough time to broadcast and react.

No one is surprised by all the conditions that point toward a tornado. The problem is that in certain areas, the tornado watches are occurring ALL the time and you can't stop every time there is one.

So, yeah, in hindsight everyone saw it coming. But no one thinks THIS time will actually be the time so it does sneak up on people. My father recent went to bed during a tornado warning and one touched down less than a mile away. He got lucky. More reliable indicators of actual tornadoes will be helpful.

[dylan604]

The people think the same way about hurricanes. Only they have much more time in advance to ignore it.