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It really depends. They are more common in the plains states - Nebraska / Kansas / Miss ouri / Oklahoma - in more rural areas. The land is so flat that there are no places to take shelter otherwise.
In more built up areas, no. If you see them they would be residential, rather than commercial, although lots of commercial buildings will have basements for physical plants. But Kentucky is not really as tornado prone as areas further west. It is much hillier so that tends to decrease the likelihood.
Also tornados can be really quiet if small. I had one touch down and tear out a wall of an apartment complex about 5 blocks due east of me and I didn't hear a thing.
However one of the most terrifying weather events I have ever experienced was being inside of an airplane hangar, watching the sky turn green black, and then seeing grass raining down as the wind picked up and the temperature dropped about 10C as part of an approaching front. Apparently a large tornado touched down nearby and we were experiencing the fallout. About 100x more frightening than any hurricane or tropical storm I've ever been through. I mean the sky was green. Never seen anything like that since.