What happens if a Tornado Warning is issued during Mass?

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It’s not tempting God.

We should not test God.
 
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Good Friday 2011 St. Louis tornado, terminal took a direct hit. I’d evacuate.
 
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It doesn’t have to be either/or. God gave us reason for a reason.
 
Let’s not deny a dying man a glass of water because we’re forbidden to work on the Sabbath. Take shelter.
 
I remember that this happened to us about a decade ago. The congregation moved to the basement, but the pastor had a table set up for a temporary altar and simply continued mass downstairs. He spoke loud enough for everyone to hear, and the Extraordinary ministers each took a few rooms to distribute communion and Father took the hallway with the most people.
 
And other reports say he was a Christian although not Egyptian. In either case that is a faulty comparison.
 
That photo doesn’t even do justice. Looking back: the Good Friday tornado of 2011 The tornado ripped dozens of houses in Bridgeton completely off their foundations and scattered them across the valley. The subdivision that was the most damaged has a Protestant church at the top of the street, where a large crowd of people were watching “The Passion” and the whole roof was torn from over their heads. The Catholic Church in the neighborhood wasn’t as badly damaged. I believe their steeple was knocked off. It’s a miracle that no one was killed that night!
 
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I will trust the priest to know what to do and I will do whatever I can to help him.
 
But, at Mass you are staying in the presence of God. Why would He want you to run and hide? Or maybe by sending the tornado He is testing your faith?
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Pasting the original just for context.

As written, this gives the impression of running and hiding from God.

Hardly.

Moving to a safe location and either continuing the Mass there or pausing until it is safe and continuing the Mass in the original location are merely prudent means of insuring that Mass CAN continue.

Other than being more scary and nerve-wracking, delaying/moving Mass for a tornado is no different than any of the many minor mishaps that can interrupt the flow of a Mass.
 
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I think the point has been made with regards to what our friend ontheway1 is saying. Let’s not pile on.
 
My wife and I were married less than a year and living in Wichita when the Andover tornado hit. Up until then, when the warning sirens went off, most people would run out into the front yard and look up. That one got everyone’s attention.
 
My parish has a natural disaster plan in place. The congretation is to seek shelter (with designated individuals ushering/helping where needed).
 
Had a more than few missile attack alarms go off when I did mass in Iraq numerous times- I just wrapped everything up and took everybody to the nearest shelter, turned on the flashlight, and continued with Mass!
 
Umm, tornadoes can do nasty things. Check out the damage from the Regina, SK tornado of 1912 I think it was. They rebuilt the big downtown church, but large stone blocks did a disappearing act. You would be amazed what those things can do.

Out here, when a tornado warning hits, folks step outside to see whether there actually is anything coming or not. Get a lot of abundance of caution things. Have seen funnel clouds over town though. Church doesn’t have a basement, so. Mass is usually at 9:00AM on Sunday and 5:00PM on Saturday. If the weather is that bad at 9:00AM, guessing nobody would be in church anyway.

Out here, better question may be, what happens when softball sized hail starts dropping from the sky.
 
I can tell you what my grandma would have done when huge hailstones started falling from the sky out in Nebraska. She would have just kept on doing the dishes while my mom who was not from Nebraska freaked out about the size of the hail. I saw this in person.
 
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