Hurricanes and tornados actually weren't as devastating to indigenous Americans as they are today and the main reason for this was because indigenous Americans of the Midwestern states mainly lived in temporary structures. It was easy for them to recognize the signs of a tornado forming and when they did it was easy for them to just pack up, leave and rebuild the house over the next few days.

It wasn't like today where when a tornado comes your stuck with evacuation and risking losing everything you ever owned or death. It was literally a part of their lives to build new structures throughout the year anyway so when a tornado came, it wasnt the end of the world. It was more like "oh well, i had to build a new house next month anyway..."

For hurricanes it was a similar scenario except the coastal woodlands were a little more proactive about where they built their dwellings. Tribes on both the east and western coast have oral traditions of not building settlements directly on the banks of the ocean, instead they would prefer to build their villages around closed bays or on brackish rivers. But they also recognized that hurricanes and tornados came in seasons and were able to prepare for them ahead of time.