If a tornado is about to pick you up or picks you up, try to cover your head and neck with your arms to shield you from debris.
Although being picked up by a tornado is not likely to result in survival although in rare cases people have survived being picked up by a tornado.
Before a tornado has the chance to pick you up, if you can't seek shelter in a basement or tornado shelter, find a ditch or a depression and life flat in it or use a blanket, mattress or other thick items if possible for more protection.
Don't seek shelter under and overpass and if you happen to be in a car or vehicle, you should exist the vehicle and get into a ditch if you can't reach a sturdy building.
If the tornado picks you up, there's not much you can do, but try to remain as calm as possible and protect your neck and hope that the tornado puts you down more gently than you were picked.
But you might not survive either way if you were picked up by a tornado, unless it picked you up just slightly and let you down before it took you too far.
Surviving being picked up by a tornado is extremely rare and incredibly dangerous, but not entirely impossible, as there have been documented cases of people being lifted by tornadoes and surviving, though usually with severe injuries; the biggest threats are being slammed by debris, the immense wind forces, and the low pressure, but some miraculously survive by staying relatively intact and getting dropped in relatively soft areas, needing immediate medical help for injuries.
Tornadoes usually last a few seconds to 10 minutes, although some tornadoes can last over an hour.
Most tornadoes are actually weak and last only a few minutes, and stronger tornadoes often last 20 minutes or longer and the rare violent tornadoes can last for over an hour.
The length of time that a tornado lasts is also directly related to the strength of the tornado.
Weak tornadoes are tornadoes in the EF0-EF1 category and are the most common tornadoes and often last less than 10 minutes, with the average weak tornado lasting around 2 minutes to 3 minutes.
Strong tornadoes are in the EF2-EF3 category and can last for 20 minutes or longer.
Violent tornadoes are tornadoes in the EF4-EF5 category and are the rarest tornadoes but also longest lasting tornadoes and can last over an hour.
The tornado alley shifted east, with increased tornado activity moving from the traditional Great Plains, "Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas", towards the Midsouth and Southeast and impacting states like Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Missouri, partly due to climate change altering moisture and patterns.
The shift means that more frequent and intense tornado outbreaks are occurring in the Dixie Alley region, which was a change that was driven by warmer Gulf waters and different atmospheric setups.
The worst tornado in history was the Tri-State Tornado that occurred on March 18th, 1925, which was the single deadliest tornado in the history of the United States.
The Tri-State Tornado that occurred in 1925 on March 18th killed at least 20 farm owners in southeastern Illinois and southwestern India.
In the midday and the afternoon hours of Wednesday, March 18th, 1925, the Tri-State Tornado which was the deadliest tornado in United Stats history and the second deadliest tornado worldwide moved through Eastern Missouri, Southern Illinois and Southern India, killing 695 people and also injuring 2,027 more people.
The damage done by the Tri-State Tornado in 1025 was $16.55 million in $1925 dollars which is equal to $2.9 billion now.
The cause of the Tri-State Tornado was a result of the collision of warm and moist air from the Gulf of Mexico with cool, dry air from the west, which created a highly unstable atmosphere.
The clash of air masses, when combined with a powerful low pressure system and strong winds at different heights, fueled the long lived supercell thunderstorm, which produced the tornado.
The highly favorable setup occurred at the triple point where the warm front, cold front and dry line met, maximizing low level convergence and opment.
A low pressure system pulled warm, moist air northward, while cooler, drier air moved in from the west.
Where these air masses met, they created a highly unstable atmosphere.
Another baddest tornado or worst tornado was the 1989 Bangladesh tornado of (Manikganj/Saturia).
The 1989 Bangladesh tornado of (Manikganj/Saturia) killed around 1,300 people.