WFTV Camera view of EF3 Tornado Tearing Through Downtown Nashville on March 3, 2020 

Tornadoes that spawn at night or completely blot out the sun leaving only darkness are the scariest ones

Night tornados are the scariest

I've survived two night tornadoes... Each time I was not expecting things to escalate so I went to bed. Thankfully, I was woken up by the sirens and took shelter.

The scariest part of a night tornado is the lightning illuminating it.

For everyone who is worried about sleeping through a tornado, just install a weather alert app on your phone and set it to alert you loudly when there is a tornado warning issued for your area. It works like a charm, trust me.

I realized how heavy of a sleeper I was when I slept through this. The thing leveled the apartment building directly next to mine, but ours had very little damage. Pretty freaky that I had no idea I was a block away from a direct hit, until I woke up.

“It’s coming towards us folks” Henry “We are inside the tornado” HENRY “I am flying in the air I am 100 feet off the ground stay inside folks” **HENRY**

He was freaking out so much she was like “Henry…. HENRY….” And he continues to repeat the same thing and is casually getting louder and louder.

We’ll never forget watching this live as it happened in the middle of the night. I live just north of Nashville……

Even in a terrifying tornado they fight over the microphone 🤣

Night tornadoes are the scariest for sure, back in 2015 the day after Christmas there was an EF4 that ripped through my neighborhood in the middle of the night, less than half a mile from my house at the time. Thankfully it missed me but literally down the street everything was completely leveled

Just imagine how scary it would have sounded if Nashville still had their original sirens.

Everyone get to safety! Except Dan; DAN ARE YOU GETTING THIS?! Lol poor Dan. Also thank you, Dan. Then the woman is about to give Henry a Xanax and ask him to use his indoor voice. Sorry, I’m responding to this nightmare with ghoulish humor. Glad they’re all okay. 👍

Where on earth are you all seeing this video? I don't know why this is blowing up just now.

Terrifying! Like something out of an end of times movie.

I think it hit channel 5.

Kind of interesting seeing a tornado move through a city center like that. Usually the footage we see comes from more rural areas. Usually when you hear of big cities and tornadoes, its the more outlying areas.

Henry...Henry....."ITS HITTING CHANNEL 5"! Henry....?

WFTV is in Orlando, not Nashville. The correct call letters of Nashville's Channel 5 are WTVF, standing for "We're TeleVision Five", in honor of their channel position.

I remember sleeping through this and as it hit my friend had woken me up to tell me that a tornado was hitting nashville. I was terrified, which is scary coming out of my mouth seeing as how I study these things I hope no one has to endure the fear of being in an incredibly powerful tornado, as well as it being at night. Remember night twisters are 10x more dangerous than day twisters.

I moved to a town 15 miles out of Nashville. I'm from NY, so I'd never experienced a tornado. I've always wanted to. They intrigue me. Or at least I thought so. It was sometime around 2005. An F3 hit about a 1/4 of a mile from my house and it was at night. I have never felt anything so frightening and powerful in my life. I can't even really explain it. It was like the devil. I was powerless. I felt my house pulsing and swelling as if it were going to explode. I was absolutely powerless. My life was in nature's hands. FRIGHTENING!!!!! The next morning, I went out to explore the damage in the neighborhood. Huge oak tress were twisted in half. Not just broken, but actually twisted. Grass was torn from the ground exposing the path of the tornado. Houses were just gone. I never want to see another tornado as long as I live. What an experience. I do want to experience an earthquake though. That would be cool.....LOL!!!!!!! I'll never learn.

Terrifying. Henry was probably calmer than most could be. The night monster, this time you can see it's path of explosions and then darkness. Nobody thinks a tornado is gonna hit, you don't have much time though. I couldn't live somewhere wo a bacement and I still wouldn't be safe. One minute your house, neighbors house is there, ONE minute later gone.

There was actually a stronger tornado that formed from this same line of storms in between Baxter and Cookeville TN around 2 AM- an EF4 that killed 19. Houses were completely leveled. Being night, the warnings occurred right around when it touched down which was too late for most.

Wait for it..... run! Except you Dan, you watch it out the window! Henry, Henry, shut up!

To the uploader, thanks for posting this, but this is WTVF, Nashville. A lifelong resident of Middle Tennessee. God bless

This is straight out of a movie🌪️🌩️.

I think it hit channel 5….just a gut feeling 🤔

Wow. I mean up close and personal with the power out!! Down. Right. Scary.

Henry, Henry, wake up sweetie you were having a bad dream. You were talking in your sleep

Having and still living in tornado alley in NE Oklahoma I have seen my fair share of tornados. In the daytime or nighttime, they still suck. With that said, the people in the top floor of the hotel or office building in the center of the screen, if they saw it coming? You know their butt was puckered. I hope everyone took shelter accordingly. The transformers going up around the city should be indication enough that something was going on. They don’t just blow up by themselves. If they start going off across town and they continue to go off and are getting closer to you… take cover because the storm and whatever is causing that to happen is headed your way.

I just want to be sure was it channel 5?

I feel like Night Tornados are way more scarier then Day Tornados.

I was young when the tornado hit in 1998 but I’m terrified of bad weather til this day after that & im 26 now lol so this that night had my heart racing because our storms are always over night 😩

Um tornado durante a noite e com queda de energia elétrica, deve ser como entrar no túnel que leva ao inferno.

One of the scariest storms I'll never forget! :(

I remember this night, I was woken up by my brother yelling at me, follows by sounds of sirens and pouring rain, it honestly was terrifying because it hit past mid night, i was fucking ASLEEP

No way, they named their camera Skynet lol

America be spamming tornadoes and spawning at night..

Me, one state down: “Don’t you dare become a multi state tornado”

I feel pretty sure those flashes at the beginning of the video were power line flashes. Cause lightening struck about the same time or right after and it lit up the clouds but the first 2 didn’t.

Henry.... Calm down bud.

Just a few weeks after this recording, much of the country got shut down for obvious reasons.

Amazingly, I hadn't seen this footage before. The tornado was smaller at this point. By the time it got to Cookeville, it was an EF4. Killed a lot of people.

Old 1990s camera in 2022? 😑

I have lived in Nashville and my dad managed a motel there and we saw a tornado 🌪 going through the downtown area before, that is very scary!

I got some mahor chills when I started hearing it at 1:45. That was so eerie.

Everybody gangsta till they pause the video and the sirens are still going off

prayers to the 5 who lost there lives

Hyperactive Henry. Wish we could have seen the tornado.

How did they miss those first power flashes? 😮

The dog that died absolutely destroys my heart

And the video had to cut at the most greatest moment! What the hell, man?!

I live in Missouri and 99.9% of the time our tornado warnings or actual tornados are always at night. I’ve woke from dead sleep like 1 or 2 AM to sirens going off. But the F5 Joplin tornado in 2011 was a mid evening occurrence. In fact, we have severe weather predicted tonight (not enough to spawn a tornado) but the next couple weeks we’ve got some perfect instability for tornadoes to develop. So happy I live in a home with a basement.

The funny thing is that Henry was saying it's on channel 5 and repeat s and then the Girl she was like Henry calm down!! I hope you guys are safe!!! Love from PA. Edit: thank you for the likes🥰

I hear the fear in this man's voice tornadoes are always terrifying

I live in NC and while big tornado are not common in my area, I wonder where we can go during one? No basement, but we do have a crawl space under the home. I was thinking of putting a large demo bar in there (use in case the doorway gets blocked) and go there in the event if tornado. Thoughts?

Hitting channel 5, close but not actually hitting.

Henry, Henry, your freaking out.

The anchor saying Henry's name as if he can hear her over the roaring wind.

1:58 that's a thick a** vortex!

What was the channel again?

I remember when Obama back in 2008 just about leveled my entire cuntry

There are some tornados that are beautiful and in the middle of nowhere but these ones are absolutely horrifying.

Henry!😄Henry!🙄Henry😒

They interrupted Leave It To Beaver for this?

Wow she maintained complete calm and he was wetting his pants. He should have let her continue with the broadcast.

Super epic video footage and audio this is just wow.

I didn't see anything

When I was in 3rd grade they made us watch Night of the Twister in class and I was absolutely terrified of tornados til I was about 17 lol

Holy hell this sounds terrifying, some apocalyptic shit right here

It was an ef4 and the death toll was 20 plus. At the time it was the most dead from a tornado since may 20th 2013.

Whats worst is because its so dark you can't tell what direction this thing is Coming from, it can even touch down in the dark of night you wouldn't even know it, thats what makes night twisters so dangerous and scary🌪

Power flashes

I've lived with tornados all my life, but I will never get over the terror of the sirens, the wind, and the aftermath. A tornado is an unrelenting and unbiased killer, and that becomes more apparent during the night.

1:18 "....connects with interstate 64..." Bree can thank her time in St Louis for that one. With 65 & 24 in Nashville it was bound to happen sooner or later. Miss ya, Bree!

I google searched Nashville tv stations and the closest one to this station's call letters are WTVF channel 5. There is no WFTV in that state.

Title is misleading, judging by the quality of the video, it's more likely a 1920 tornado and not one from 2020.

I live in south Nashville and for some reason they never hit south not that I know of it always hit north,west,east but yea it always come at night and I hate that because I be setting up all night until morning I be so tired and when it’s over I sleep like a baby

I was within a mile of it on the 4th floor of a hotel after a Preds game. The tornado (idk if it was the same one but it was the same storm) eventually hit EF4 and almost hit my house which is about 2 hours away from Nashville. I was extremely lucky on that day.

Why do all these TV News Channels have all seem to have Video cameras from 1992 in 2020. :/

Lol that commentary at the end "it's hitting channel 5, it's hitting us right now omg," "Ok henry.. "It's hitting channel 5 right now on the ground."

Like a big Cloverfield type beast coming towards you. In the dark too.

How many people saw WTFTV at first? Just me? Okay....

ghidora rolling through the town

JESUS CHRIST IS COMING!!! REPENT. DON'T BE LEFT BEHIND!!!!!!

That some scary sh$$

Henry needs to calm the fuck down! He sounded like Reed Timmer!🤣🤣🤣

What good is a camera view if you can't see anything? Amateurs have far better footage than any of the so-called "news" stations.

HOLLY COW! 1-1/4 INCH?! Thats a monster!

WTVF. WFTV is channel 9 in Orlando.

Ok Henry, I understand, but is the tornado hitting channel 5?

it's like fing Godzilla walking through the city

You meant to say WTVF 5. WFTV is a station on channel 9 in Orlando, Florida.

That's WTVF-TV Nashville, Tennessee, NewsChannel 5.

What’s happening? Where? When? Remind me again I keep forgetting

In case you didn't know. It's hitting channel 5.

filmed with a potato? or nokia 7650?

“Henry...” “IT IS HITTING CHANNEL 5!!”

"It's moving to channel 5" O shit O_O

What channel did he say he was reporting for? 🤔