Yes. Apart from a few exceptional cases a tornado will spare more people than it kills.
Yes. The majority of people in the path of a tornado will survive.
Yes. In fact in most cases more people survive than are killed.
People cannot survive being directly hit by a tornado. Tornadoes are incredibly powerful and destructive forces that can cause severe injury or death. It is crucial to seek shelter in a secure location, such as a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor, during tornado warnings to maximize chances of survival.
Not many people do survive, and there don't seem to be any published figures on this.
People are more likely to survive by taking adequate shelter in the basement or cellar of a sturdy building or in a specially designed tornado shelter. Beyond that survival is often a matter of chance of where the worst of the tornado hits or where a particular piece of debris goes.
Yes. If you look at the statistics, the majority of people affected by a tornado will survive without serious injury.
Probably not. Although tornadoes do kill people, most people who are impacted by tornadoes survive.
The best way to survive a tornado is to get underground, such as in a basement or cellar. There people are usually safe. If there is not basement you should get to an interior room or hallway. The idea is to put as much between you and the tornado as possible.
Depends how close you are to the tornado and how strong the tornado is. Strong tornadoes can pick people up and throw them through the air hundreds of yards, in which case you'd be real lucky to survive. More often, they send objects into the air as projectiles that impale people, or simple shred buildings that collapse onto of people. It really isn't much more complicated than that.
Tornadoes can easily kill, but most of the people affected by tornadoes survive.
Yes. In fact the vast majority of people impacted by most tornadoes will survive.
If you are picked up by a tornado it is most likely that you will be thrown by it and most likely die on impact. However, in a few cases people have survived being carried by tornadoes with only minor injuries.