Five tips to protect your people, property and business from tornadoes

Tornadoes are among the most destructive, costly and unpredictable natural hazards. Unlike hurricanes, which can be tracked days ahead of making landfall, tornadoes can appear suddenly providing little or no advance warning. It means people and businesses have to be prepared, vigilant and respond rapidly if a tornado is sighted or warning issued.

A tornado is a narrow, violently rotating column of air that extends from the base of a thunderstorm to the ground.

The U.S is known as the tornado capital of the world with around 1,200 tornadoes a year impacting the country mostly, in an area called ‘Tornado Alley’ located in the Central United States. But tornadoes occur in most countries around the world.

Despite the power of these natural hazards, there remain steps that businesses can take to protect people, property and businesses.