Carrie Underwood may be singing about a make-believe tornado and a fictional home and family in her latest single, “Blown Away,” but having grown up in the area of the U.S. known as Tornado Alley, in real life, Carrie learned that you don’t take chances when it comes to that kind of severe weather. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Carrie incorporates some very cool, weather-related visual effects to go along with her current “Blown Away Tour”! Be sure to catch her in concert when she’s in your area! Visit CarrieUnderwoodOfficial.com for upcoming dates!
• And speaking of Carrie in concert, 12-year-old Chase Kurnick made national news when Carrie pulled him from the audience at her Louisville show in response to his concert sign asking her to be his first kiss. And on Friday, Chase — and the video of his on-stage, lip-to-lip Carrie smooch — made their way to NBC’s Today show, where Chase wasn’t afraid to kiss and tell about his experience! Check out the very fun interview, online here.
• And be sure to tune-in this weekend for the premiere of Behind the Music: Carrie Underwood, debuting Sunday, September 30th, at 9pm, ET, on VH1. The channel continues its celebration of Carrie as Ms. Underwood goes Unplugged for an all-new special debuting October 2nd at 4pm, ET, on VH1.com, and then at 7pm, ET, on-air on VH1.

  Carrie Underwood grew up in Tornado Alley, and she hopes that the fictional drama behind “Blown Away” would never be true for anyone. (:43)
“I grew up in Oklahoma, so we definitely saw our fair share of tornado warnings, watches, and actual tornadoes. I remember on definitely more than one occasion running out to the cellar, or you know, we had the tornado drills in school and stuff like that. And even living in Tennessee now, it’s like we still deal with that, so I definitely have seen my fair share, and I have seen the destruction that it can cause, not firsthand, thank God, but yeah, I mean, the song itself is a movie. It’s a story. It’s not…hopefully, it’s not real for anybody. I hope they can just, you know, listen to it and take it in context and treat it as the story that it is.”