According to Baidu education, when encountering a tornado, you should flee in the opposite or vertical direction of the tornado and find a low-lying area perpendicular to the tornado path to hide.

Tornado, that is, a sharply rotating funnel-shaped cloud column extending from cumulonimbus clouds. It is a vertical hollow rotating airflow between the bottom of the direct cloud system and the underlying surface, and it is a disastrous weather phenomenon at local scale.