Sentence examples for before a tornado from inspiring English sources

Two days before, a tornado took her husband, Stan.

And suddenly everything went green, like right before a tornado.

Lead time refers to the amount of warning time, in minutes, before a tornado strikes.

It can be very dangerous to travel to a public shelter in the few minutes before a tornado hits.

Eventually they retreated to a hotel across the street not long before a tornado ripped the roof off the apartment building.

Between the fiscal (October to September) years of 2005 and 2011, Americans typically received 13 and 15 minutes of warning lead time before a tornado struck.

The week before, a second tornado tore through the Oklahoma City area with 295 m.p.h.

And just before that, a tornado of fast-fashion devotees stormed Uniqlo's store on Lower Broadway, where there were hourlong waits for Jil Sander's second +J collection.

Before something like a tornado, the text should arrive on most smart phones at about the same time that alert sirens, an old-fashioned but still effective communications device, go off.

It's all spinning too fast, and there's no place to rest, no island, no solace, nowhere to spare a few hours passed out between a battle to fall asleep and being woken again long before dawn by a tornado child.

The last thought Gary Macc" McPherson had before blacking out was that a tornado had struck the Stillaguamish Valley.