Tornado Safe Areas

These areas on campus have been designated as safe areas to gather during tornados or severe weather situations.

• Alumni Hall – 1st floor locker rooms or hallway outsides of them
• Aquinas – If you are in a first floor room, stay in your room, get under desks or bed; if you are on the 2nd – 4th floors go to stair wells at the ends of the halls as close to the first floor as possible.
• Battelle Hall – 1st floor restrooms and storage spaces
• Erskine Hall – Panther Plaza near stairwell NOT where there is the high ceiling
• Fitness Center – Locker rooms
• Fitzpatrick – Basement as close to the west end of the building as possible, not in stair well.
• Guzman – Basement
• Guzman Annex – Basement
• Las Casas – Basement
• LEAD Building – 1st floor interior class rooms (107, 113, 112, 116)
• LEAD Tuttle – main offices with doors closed
• Lynam – 1st floor North end of the building
• Physical Plant – main hallway with the doors closed
• Sansbury – 1st floor western hallway doors closed
• Siena – If you are in a first floor room, stay in your room, get under desks or bed; if you are on the 2nd – 4th floors go to stair wells at the ends of the halls as close to the first floor as possible.
• Spangler – bottom floor outside of the LVC or in the stairwells
• St. Albert’s – 1st floor in the storage areas and restrooms if unavailable interior hallway doors closed
• The Bishop James A. Griffin Student Center – 1st floor in the food service hallway/ dock area
• Wehrle – Bottom Floor – ceramics room, if closed near restrooms or in photo lab.

These locations are not safe to be in during a tornado.

You must exit these locations, move toward the lowest ground possible and get down if a tornado touch-down seems likely. 

•  Batting Building – get out and head down to the baseball field
•  SRC – Get out and head toward the creek
•  Maintenance Garage - Get out and head towards the creek