Sounds horrible. Tornados - we have had I think 3 or 5 in the last 20 years here, or at least the press just didn't cover more of them, and Tornados are a big thing here. Almost like a dangerous spectacle.
We have far more problems with floods here, especially in winter and in spring. And coldness - during 2 weeks of "arctic cold", s people say, several people had died.
I don't know if this is just prejudice or not (I guess so), but we have a slight advantage here : *all* houses are built out of stone here. Houses built of wood alone are not known here, except as garden houses and as "protection huts" in the Alps. And yes, in the countries in and around the Alps houses made of wood are much more common, except in the towns.
While we don't have tornados here, we have sometimes hurricanes here (we call a hurricane here an "Orkan"), about once in 10-20 years. The result can be devastating, too : lots and lots and lots of woods taken down. The lask orkan cut off several smaller villages and towns from civilization because all of the woods around them were suddenly lying down - several kilomtres around them. People had to cut through this massive damage first, and that needed at least several days of work.
I do remember such a hurricane from my school time : I had to drive each morning by bike through a wood to an internship (at school we get once around the end of school a phase of a few weeks of internship in firms we can choose so that we can find out if this job suits us). One morning after such an hurricane, my way was blocked. Lots of really thick tree trunks were lying around there. I had to lift my bicycle over them. One trunk had been breaking up and completely destroy th motor of an BMW close to small district at the other end of the wood. During the rest of the year, a sunflower was to be seen growing on the rest of the´trunk, 3-5 metres above the ground.
The woods are so much prone to collapsing because they are often - too often - "monocultures" of conifers. They grow fast and used as material for furniture, carpentry and paper in large scale. Since cornifers don't go as deep into the ground (with their roots) as other trees do, they can't stand a hurricane that easily as other trees are able to.
But Tornados - I thank God that we don't have them here. Orkans and floods are bad enough.