Wow, Crapola! So glad to hear you are OK.
When I had my first tornado experience....I suspected something unusual was happening...but I did not realize it was a tornado until after it was over.
I had noticed black clouds moving quickly across the sky...but I did not see a "twister" form. The wind howled a few times and it sounded like ghosts calling.
Then, the sky fell in on me and smothered everything. It was like a whitish/grey fog and it just suddenly settled so thick that I could not even see out of the windows.
I thought perhaps I should run to the storm cellar outside. Things just didn't feel right. I was spooked.
My dog appeared in the doorway, she ran to me and then ran back up the steps into the den....back and forth a few times like she wanted me to follow. And she was barking.
So I followed and she went into the bedroom and hid under the bed.
I felt so sorry for her being scared, so I crawled under the bed and put my arms around her and talked softly to try to calm her.
Then the house started shaking. I felt rumbles. The dog was trembling. Heck, she seemed to know more about what was going on than I did.
When it was finally all over, I went outside. There were hundred year oak trees uprooted. Debris everywhere. Fences torn down....limbs, etc.
What was surprising most of all was this weird "dead silence" ...well. .. it's not really silence. It's a pitch that seems to block out normal hearing. I did not hear limbs crack; I did not hear trees fall. And yet, here they were, felled all around me.
Guess I was lucky that time, too.