What is your closest encounter with a tornado?

I'll start. Without divulging too many details about where I live (I prefer to stay anonymous online), somewhat recently, my town in the Northeast US experienced a direct hit from a strong tornado. There was an intense thunderstorm during which I got a tornado warning on my phone. My reaction was to go to my balcony facing west to look for the tornado and film it. However, it was too rainy to see anything. I figured it was one of those radar indicated warnings without a tornado on the ground, but then I noticed something. The wind was blowing from the south and not the west, as it usually does. That's when I realized that there was in fact a tornado on the ground. I mean, what else would cause the wind to blow from an unusual direction while there is a tornado warning? After the wind and rains died down, I went out to tour the damage and there was quite a lot of it. Roofs blown off, trees down, traffic lights not working, etc. Fortunately, nobody died from this tornado, as far as I'm aware. It was one heck of an experience.