
When severe weather strikes, the safety of your organization depends on more than just having a plan—it depends on whether that plan works in practice. Tornadoes, in particular, can develop quickly, leaving little time to make critical decisions. One of the most effective ways to ensure your Severe Weather Preparedness Plan holds up under pressure is to conduct and evaluate a tornado exercise.
Our Tornado Exercise Evaluation provides organizations with a structured tool to assess how well staff, volunteers and leaders respond during a simulated tornado event. By working through this evaluation, you’ll uncover strengths, identify gaps and build confidence in your ability to protect people and property when a real storm threatens.
Even the most thorough plan may falter without practice. This evaluation helps organizations test their processes, measure readiness and train staff in a safe, controlled environment. By simulating a tornado scenario, leaders can see how quickly decisions are made, how well communication flows and whether sheltering procedures are effective.
The resource breaks the exercise into three stages, making it easier to measure performance step by step:
The evaluation isn’t just about scoring—it’s about improvement. By documenting observations and discussing results, organizations can address weaknesses, update plans and train staff on new procedures. Over time, repeating these exercises builds resilience and ensures that responses become second nature.
This preview only scratches the surface. The full Tornado Exercise Evaluation includes comprehensive checklists for each stage of an exercise, providing a standardized way to evaluate readiness across your entire organization. With its structured approach, it helps transform a generic plan into a tested, actionable process that can withstand the pressures of a real tornado emergency.
When severe weather strikes, the safety of your organization depends on the preventative steps you've taken. Use this resource to evaluate your preparedness.
When severe weather strikes, the safety of your organization depends on more than just having a plan—it depends on whether that plan works in practice. Tornadoes, in particular, can develop quickly, leaving little time to make critical decisions. One of the most effective ways to ensure your Severe Weather Preparedness Plan holds up under pressure is to conduct and evaluate a tornado exercise.
Our Tornado Exercise Evaluation provides organizations with a structured tool to assess how well staff, volunteers and leaders respond during a simulated tornado event. By working through this evaluation, you’ll uncover strengths, identify gaps and build confidence in your ability to protect people and property when a real storm threatens.
Even the most thorough plan may falter without practice. This evaluation helps organizations test their processes, measure readiness and train staff in a safe, controlled environment. By simulating a tornado scenario, leaders can see how quickly decisions are made, how well communication flows and whether sheltering procedures are effective.
The resource breaks the exercise into three stages, making it easier to measure performance step by step:
The evaluation isn’t just about scoring—it’s about improvement. By documenting observations and discussing results, organizations can address weaknesses, update plans and train staff on new procedures. Over time, repeating these exercises builds resilience and ensures that responses become second nature.
This preview only scratches the surface. The full Tornado Exercise Evaluation includes comprehensive checklists for each stage of an exercise, providing a standardized way to evaluate readiness across your entire organization. With its structured approach, it helps transform a generic plan into a tested, actionable process that can withstand the pressures of a real tornado emergency.
When severe weather strikes, the safety of your organization depends on the preventative steps you've taken. Use this resource to evaluate your preparedness.

When severe weather strikes, the safety of your organization depends on the preventative steps you've taken. Use this resource to evaluate your preparedness.

When severe weather strikes, the safety of your organization depends on more than just having a plan—it depends on whether that plan works in practice. Tornadoes, in particular, can develop quickly, leaving little time to make critical decisions. One of the most effective ways to ensure your Severe Weather Preparedness Plan holds up under pressure is to conduct and evaluate a tornado exercise.
Our Tornado Exercise Evaluation provides organizations with a structured tool to assess how well staff, volunteers and leaders respond during a simulated tornado event. By working through this evaluation, you’ll uncover strengths, identify gaps and build confidence in your ability to protect people and property when a real storm threatens.
Even the most thorough plan may falter without practice. This evaluation helps organizations test their processes, measure readiness and train staff in a safe, controlled environment. By simulating a tornado scenario, leaders can see how quickly decisions are made, how well communication flows and whether sheltering procedures are effective.
The resource breaks the exercise into three stages, making it easier to measure performance step by step:
The evaluation isn’t just about scoring—it’s about improvement. By documenting observations and discussing results, organizations can address weaknesses, update plans and train staff on new procedures. Over time, repeating these exercises builds resilience and ensures that responses become second nature.
This preview only scratches the surface. The full Tornado Exercise Evaluation includes comprehensive checklists for each stage of an exercise, providing a standardized way to evaluate readiness across your entire organization. With its structured approach, it helps transform a generic plan into a tested, actionable process that can withstand the pressures of a real tornado emergency.