It's a little strange seeing tornadoes talked about like this when they are common, occasionally tragic, but most often harmless outside a little property destruction, occurrences at home.

Tornadoes are exceptional events on the Indian subcontinent: rare to the point of there being occurrences numbering roughly 50 in a recorded meteorological history of 160 years.

It is, though I suspect this is more of a difference between discussion about pretty much any big natural disaster that reaches us at a distance mostly through media reports?

Large direct hits to populated areas by natural disasters produce a lot of trauma and I imagine most of them _do_ get treatments somewhat like this, though I imagine they're usually pretty local (or at least mainly of interest to people in the area).

Someone published an entire ~50-page magazine/book (https://www.depts.ttu.edu/nwi/Pubs/ReportsJournals/The_Lubbo...) about the 1970 Lubbock tornado, and I know Houston's got at least one Hurricane Harvey book (and it wouldn't surprise me if Ike and T.S. Allison and maybe even Rita did the same).