Sentence examples for before the tornado from inspiring English sources

I heard on the radio about 10 minutes before the tornado hit that it was heading towards our area.

In Oklahoma City, the hurricane sirens went off ten minutes or so before the tornado hit Moore.

It struck so hard and fast it fizzled the town's electricity before the tornado warning siren could sound.

Outside, Alfred Elliot, 64, a truck driver, was driving pell-mell to the shelter with the funnel in his rearview mirror before the tornado touched down.

Researchers believed that this tornado became the best-documented tornado in history, with data collection beginning before the tornado developed and continuing through its lifetime.

Nearby, five tractor-trailers that had been traveling on Interstate 29 shortly before the tornado hit Thurman were overturned in the high winds.

Even before the tornado-sized dust-up in Europe over who was and was not supporting the United States in Iraq, relatively respectable British publications ran articles that dismissed the French as "frogs" and the Germans as "krauts," presumably on the principle that you are what you stereotypically eat.

Dumas's city government received about $3m a year in tax revenue before the tornadoes.

Just a week before the tornadoes struck, the F-550 was on display at a rodeo in Houston.

— In the weeks before the tornadoes demolished one-seventh of his city, Walter Maddox was doing what mayors in small cities do.

There were warnings before the tornadoes hit, but those only get you so far from danger — and don't mean that you will have a home to go back to.