Tornado Safety Tips
Tornado Safety Tips
[Beneath a large caption there are two pictures above each other to the left and a bullet list with five points to the right of the pictures. The top picture shows a black tornado beneath a white cloud. It is destroying something on the ground. To the right of the debris is a house and to the left some trees. The picture below shows Black Hat from the waist and up.] Tornado Safety Tips Avoid low-lying cool air Keep your downdrafts and updrafts from mixing Seek out warm and humid surface air layers Don't let rain-cooled air choke off your circulation Avoid letting your supercell merge with a squall line

The comic features a Public Service Announcement (PSA) poster, which generally contain public-interest messages aimed at raising awareness or steering behavior around a specific issue of concern, that in this case contains tips for tornado safety. Typically, a poster labeled "Tornado Safety Tips" would be filled with instructions for how humans can stay safe in the event of a tornado, such as "stay away from windows," "go to the lowest floor of your home," "if in the open, take shelter in a ditch," and so on, see these examples: Example 1 (with same title as comic), example 2 and example 3 .
Black Hat on the other hand, has flipped this on its head by publishing a poster that contains safety tips for the tornado itself and contains information for how tornadoes can stay safe, i.e., continue to exist; see the table of tips below. The joke is that just as, for example, a "climber safety" poster is directed at climbers, the "tornado safety" poster is directed at tornadoes.
It is thus in no way helpful for people who actually live in an area that experiences tornadoes or even for people that don't live in tornado-prone areas but want to be ready for their possible occurence [ citation needed ] . It is not possible to follow most of the guidelines [ citation needed ] , as they are intended for tornadoes. But the advice a human could follow would only take you towards places which can sustain tornadoes. Instead they should choose to use an app like the one in 937: TornadoGuard .
The title text simply adds more tornado advice for tornadoes, bringing up the common myth about tornadoes not crossing mountains, except from the tornado's perspective.
Although this is clearly not a tip for humans, the idea of tornado safety tip is yet another tips comic .
Tornadoes are a recurring subject on xkcd. The tornado in this comic is similar to the picture used in the Tornado version of 1037: Umwelt .
[Beneath a large caption there are two pictures above each other to the left and a bullet list with five points to the right of the pictures. The top picture shows a black tornado beneath a white cloud. It is destroying something on the ground. To the right of the debris is a house and to the left some trees. The picture below shows Black Hat from the waist and up.] Tornado Safety Tips Avoid low-lying cool air Keep your downdrafts and updrafts from mixing Seek out warm and humid surface air layers Don't let rain-cooled air choke off your circulation Avoid letting your supercell merge with a squall line
