When you write a business continuity plan, you are probably thinking about floods and hurricanes, blackouts or brownouts. Tornadoes usually don't fall into that plan unless you live in tornado-ravaged parts of the country.

Still, it's important to put tornado-planning on your agenda. While tornadoes have smaller funnels than other kinds of catastrophes, they can strike with far less warning than a typical hurricane provokes, according to an article in CSOonline.com. In planning for a tornado, it's important to consider the possibility that tornadoes may hit data centers. And if your company is in a tornado zone, consider the blueprint of your facility when creating a continuity plan--that should include data backup as well as physical precautions. This is one disaster that you should be planning for. 

For more on dealing with tornadoes:
- check out this CSOonline.com article

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