Commercial Storm Shelters

Survive-A-Storm Shelters has developed a novel solution for providing storm shelters for mobile workforces such as road crews, foresting teams, and oilfield workers. The Survive-A-Storm line of transitional storm shelters employs a ballasting system that enables the temporary deployment of large Quonset-style community and commercial tornado shelters in the field without the need for permanent foundations.

Survive-A-Storm’s transitional community and commercial tornado shelters are installed by performing a shallow excavation from which overburden (soil) is removed and replaced by a large metal box, which is then ballasted (filled) will the excavated overburden. Once filled, the shelter is fitted to the transitional foundation and solidly bolted in place. When it’s time to relocate the shelter, the process is reversed. The ballast is removed, the foundation loaded back onto a truck, and the soil returned to original source.

The Survive-A-Storm transitional company storm shelter was developed in response to requests by our friends in the oil and gas industry for semi-permanent but relocatable transitional community storm shelters to protect oil field workers from tornadoes. Survive-A-Storm has placed hundreds of storm shelters throughout Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Kansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Ohio, and other states in Tornado Alley. We understand the importance of protecting your employees from the severe wind risks posed by quickly developing storms that can spawn EF5 tornadoes.

Our transitional community storm shelters are a practical, easily deployable, and relocatable storm sheltering solution for 10-1,500+ occupants. We know that outdoor workers have a hard job, and we’re there to make sure that they are safe while they are doing it.

These transitional community storm shelters are designed to be ballasted by sand or the overburden removed from a shallow excavation. A massive steel ballast foundation is filled with sand or soil, covered with a steel floor, and then fitted with a Quonset-style above-ground community storm shelter. Constructed of quarter-inch steel, the transitional community storm shelter is designed and engineered to withstand the powerful forces of 250 MPH EF5 tornado winds.

These uniquely designed transitional community storm shelters are also ideal for construction crews and road crews working in remote areas where it may be difficult to seek shelter in the event of a tornado strike.

How do you know you can trust a Survive-A-Storm transitional community storm shelter to protect you from an EF5 tornado? If you’re an engineer, the answer will be self-evident. If you’re not an engineer, you can rely on the fact that our community shelters are sealed by the National Storm Shelter Association (NSSA), tested at Texas Tech University, and used by US Steel Company. That’s right! The largest steel company in the world trusts Survive-A-Storm Shelters with the lives and safety of their employees–and they know a thing or two about steel!

The Survive-A-Storm Shelters line of underground community and commerical tornado shelters is ideally suited for protecting between 16 and 230 occupants from the devastating effects of 250 MPH EF5 tornado winds. Designing, engineering, fabricating, transporting, and installing underground community tornado shelters is no easy feat–which is why we are the only company in the world that specializes in building these unique structures.

Using underground community tornado shelters allows preserving the aesthetics of the location while providing the needed lifesaving technology afforded by these FEMA 361 compliant community storm shelters.

Survive-A-Storm Shelters has developed the underground modular line of community and commercial tornado shelters to provide protection against 250 MPH EF5 tornadoes for 80 to 1,500+ occupants. Simply put, there is no project too massive for Survive-A-Storm’s modular underground community tornado shelter solution.

There is no other company in the world that has the ability or the capacity to develop a solution such as this. Survive-A-Storm Shelters understands what it takes to protect large numbers of occupants from nature’s most violent storms.

The Survive-A-Storm Max Extended Model 20×6 underground steel storm shelter is ideal for larger families or small businesses. Measuring 20 ft. long by 6 ft. wide, the Max Extended Model can be buried in your yard in just a few hours. With its powder-coated finish, you will receive the same protection against rust and corrosion as an underground gas storage tank or cross-country pipeline. This shelter has bench seating on three sides, with a stairway entering from the surface. We have even provided a steel handrail and non-slip stair treads for extra safety and convenience.