Survive Your Very Own Emergency With Nature’s Warnings

See Bands In The Sky? Get Indoors.

If you’re outside admiring the clouds and you spot long streaks of rotating clouds extending into the main thunderstorm, get into a shelter immediately. It’s more ideal to find somewhere away from windows, like a basement, because a tornado might develop soon.

These strips are called “inflow bands” and their presence highlights that the storm is drawing in low-level air from long distances. They normally stretch to the southeast or south of the storm and are relatively low in the sky.