My dog alerts me of a storm a day ahead of time and that's no crap! He seen his first tornado (F3) as a puppy and that freaked him all the way out lol.
He'll gets under my desk and I to literally have to drag him out and carry his 130lb silly butt down to the basement.
My son and I went down to Joplin several yrs ago and seen with our own eyes what a F5 does, and they ain't no joke! F3s/F2s are pretty common...heck we would go look for them. But a F5 erases towns man. Lived in the midwest almost 50 yrs and I don't play around now. Already had two F4s within 75/100 from here this year. When storms are coming, me and the dog don't sleep