u/Reasonable_Height744

- The real infrasound research on tornado vortex signatures — there's actual science on why animals flee before a tornado is visible, and I built a character's entire role around documenting it
- Why KVNX is the correct radar for that part of western Oklahoma (I had another radar suggested as a "correction" and ran the coordinates — KVNX was 95 miles from the scene location vs 143 for the suggested alternative)
- What a PDS watch actually means operationally vs. a standard tornado watch
- The specific sky color and atmospheric feel before a violent tornado — the hail-green that people from Tornado Alley recognize immediately
- What the inside of a root cellar sounds like when an EF5 passes directly overhead

I'd love to know if any of this resonates with people who've actually been close to significant tornadoes — either as chasers, spotters, or survivors. What does fiction about tornadoes usually get wrong that drives you crazy?

ROTATION is on Amazon KDP if anyone wants to check it out. But mostly I'm curious about that last question.

The thing I kept running into with weather-disaster fiction is that it either goes supernatural or it goes action-movie. I wanted to write something where the horror came entirely from the physics - what a mile-wide wedge tornado actually does, what it sounds like from inside a root cellar when one passes directly overhead, the specific kind of dread that comes from a sky that doesn't know you exist and doesn't need to.
It's called ROTATION. It's on KDP.
I'm not here to sell it - I'm curious whether the "no supernatural, just nature" approach lands as horror for people who read in this space, or whether it needs a monster to work.