I love to park my car on the beach and watch night storms coming ashore. Best fireworks show from Mother you can see. It's like an approaching artillery front with advancing forces. Freaky and with a little imagination, a glimpse of what a WW2 soldier would have experienced.
Never experienced a tornado but I'd shit at the thought of a couplea minutes or less that one has to react to a potentially deadly situation .. we've been thru the last 3 hurricanes here in FL, once spent ??? 30 minutes ? maybe 15 but seemed like an eternity in the eye of one of them.. dead calm and silence knowing the the other half of the hurricane is coming soon... tornadoes though, youre right "frightening".. earthquakes can be heart pounding as well..you need to ride out a tornado. sat through one in 'bama last spring. it was lightning so fast that the entire sky looked like hundreds of giant strobe lights as the storm approached. frightening, but beautiful...