June 25-26 Columbus, Ohio Tornado Warning 

I remember this. The earliest tornado warning I’ve experienced. I was 5 at the time, and it was during nighttime. I was terrified & we had went to the basement. At that time we had a television downstairs, so we were able to see if there was still a tornado warning or not. It didn’t pass where I was at, but there was damage done around my area.

I love Columbus's Tornado Siren System. They have a system of random Whelen Series and their howling sound makes it easier to grab attention to near by residents. I can say that the siren being heard the most in the video is a Whelen WPS-3016. Those are the higher pitched Whelens.

That's a hell of a lightning show.

Gotta love those nights in Ohio watching the news to see where the tornadoes are coming from and if were in it's path.

Took them long enough to sound an alert... must have been waiting to actually see it like a town here in Kansas where I use to live.... Once it's close enough to see there's not much time to seek shelter. Great video glad you're safe...

One of my favourite youtube storm clips !

Nice video. I remember storms like these when I lived on East 14th and 15th. Thank you.

Wow, that is a bad ass storm. Nice steady camera work too.

Tornadoes can be scary, especially at night.

Awesome video! The sirens sound very scary.

Reminds me of very recently there was 2 tornado warning for South Franklin and East Franklin, there was nonstop lightning and a few sirens went off.

The amount of positive streamers you captured is epic!

WOW THAT'S ALOT OF LIGHTNING!!!! I would probably be saying "GET DOWNSTAIRS NOW! TORNADO!!!"

I think I live right down the street from you. And yeah, it was pretty scary.

Incredible lightning show, probably the most incredible of my life. Thankfully the rotation was south of where I was, I was on the northwest side of town, somewhere between Dublin and Worthington. The tornado sirens kept going off at least 30 minutes after the warning was cancelled.

I was there on that day for vacation That storm was loud

Dude what time of day was this recorded? Every once in a while we get a nasty supercell in Phoenix AZ that has so much rain, it literally looks as black as this! And the rain portion is actually often the brighter portion of the storm during the day!

they even had the tornado sirens malfuntioning from all the electricity generated by the lightening... they wouldn't shut off for 30 minutes after the warning expired

And i live in Kent Ohio, its about 1hr and 30mins away.

Man. So familiar. I live in New Lex, and the storms we got last week had so much lightning that I couldn't get outside to tape them.

wow what year was this (tornado) from i might rember it but i'm not to sure. its hard to rember all the tornados warngings we had here

I wasn't even 4 years old yet when this happened. I don't remember this ever happening but it did. R.I.P. West Jefferson in 2008.

september 2020 on labor day we had that tornado watch and there was a lightning show going on

very nice. love the thunder/lightning ambience...havent heard that in a while...lol

cool late night tornado!!

Columbus used to have a Federal Signal 2001 SRNB tornado siren, now central Ohio and southeastern Ohio are using Whelen sirens.

WOW. The strike at 1:42/1:43 is SO CLOSE! I paused the video frame by frame to see it...it looks like it's only 15 yards or so away from you. lol Are severe t-storms and tornado warnings frequent during the spring and summer in Columbus? I'll be there all of may and am hoping so! Crazy as it might sound, I LOVE them. :)

wow awesome lighting. Did you guys get hit?

I remember this one i was 5 and omg i got really scared i was on hilltop then i think and ever since that day i been scared of tornadoes im 18 now still scared of tornadoes

one time there was a lightning strike in my front yard accompanied by the loudest thunder. it shook the ground hard. but luckily nothing broke.

Was this during the "windstorm" in ohio? Left over from hurricane ike?

I remember this. It was scary and i couldnt that night.

The siren heard in this video is the Paul S Metzger Analog in Westerville Ohio.

Sounded like a Whelen WPS 3016 and it’s really close.

nice :)

I was soooooo scare.....

I remember this D: I lived on north 4th...I was freaking out

Wow

The siren has an analog 864 :D

Federal Signal 2001-SRNB?

yessar! fun stuff!

6-25-09 clinton,michigan there was a pretty strong derecho

gotta love metzger parks siren

here in new philadelphia we have federals 2001s thyr really loud cause thyr like right beside

I think the warning went out at between 11:30 and 12:00 that night.

you better believe it!!!

Omg! At 1:42 u almost got hit by lightning!!!!!

i live in columbus and its scary

what time of night was this??

@mrpretz149 it sounds like a FS Thunderbolt and a FS 2001 of some sort any of these 2001-ac,dc,srn,srnb or even a 130 and Thunderbolts 1000,1000t&1003

well then one of two things happened eather the sirens were malfuntioning or they were sounding the all clear signal.

no that was in i think september 2008

OMG

nah this was june 09 remember?

that's a whelen siren.

That's not a 2001, that's a Whelen 3016.

There ended up not being an actual tornado.

wtf at 1:42? some lighting apears all over the screan?

Same me ever since I'm scared when one hits

no siren?

VERY dangerous behavior filming outside in a storm of that ferocity. use common sense,get the hell outta there! Mother Nature has a lot of tricks up her sleeve

My bday is june 25th 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

use common sense,get the hell outta there!filming outside in a storm of that ferocity. VERY dangerous behavior.