starts. >> Familiar sounds from any of us this morning wondering if the storm was just passing through, but then. >> People took cover for safety as sirens player, fearing what might be coming with happened very quickly. But in the moment, you know, when the house started shaking, you don't know. This is the how the house going to collapse from West Columbus to West Jefferson, to Blacklick. >> People took shelter from severe winds. Now crews are hard at work picking up the pieces and neighbors are helping neighbors in any way they can. >> We thank you for joining us today for NBC. 4 at 5. I'm sure it's small and I'm Jennifer Bullock, the most accurate team in Central Ohio Storm team 4 warns you of the threat of that severe weather and as work continues to return to normalcy, we're bringing you team coverage. You have multiple crews on the ground in your community to check out recovery effort. Storm Team 4 meteorologist Joe Spear tracking the latest data from Cruise from the National Weather Service. Checking out the damage while storm team 4 Chief meteorologist Dave Maza tracks. What else is on the way? We'll start out with Joe Spear and what rolled through this morning, Joe. I mean, it was basically storm after storm in the early morning hours of today. Pretty much lining up a trail of damage along I-seventy from the early morning hours of today. And it wasn't just with the tornadoes. We also saw a pretty high wind damage comes through even some hail reports. But now we're starting to get the details of what happened this morning. We've had to serve a teams out this morning. Each has confirmed 2 tornadoes on their own all across Ohio as a whole 3 of them have managed to be here in Central Ohio. The first was confirmed that an EF 2 that started in Blacklick here in Franklin County made its way into licking county before it eventually ended as an E f one a little bit closer to the metro area over around Hilliard, we had a confirmed EF one tornado that caused a little bit of damage north of Roberts Road and one of the most impressive tornadoes that we have seen across the state traveling 15 miles was another tornado confirmed as if to that started in Clark County and made it over in the Madison County, producing some of the most impressive damage that we've seen in this area. All right, Joe, thank you. Family is, of course, in our area are picking up the pieces after those early morning storms. But some scary moments in Madison County. NBC4's Eric Halperin is been there all day. Eric, there's a few parts of the county with a lot of damage, right? >> Jared and Jen homes, the local airport and some Ohio State University property all hit by this or in the backyard of West Jefferson property right now, as you can see behind me, they're pole barn is gone where I'm standing right now. There used to be a trampoline. But as we walk across the yard, you can see that trampoline is now up in a tree and even farther down the road from here, the damage is even worse. Get in the middle of a difficult morning. The embrace happening in front of Katie shoe makers, parents West jefferson home. My. >> Hart saying my mom's very was very upset. I'm like I told her. I told people this morning this is replaceable. >> My family is not shoemaker lives. About 2 miles away. She says her dad called around 5 saying he felt the bed to get lifted off the floor. She rushed over her parents trapped inside for about 40 minutes before firefighters got them out. We're shucking up. We're sad. We're emotional. There's a lot of memories and there. But everything can be replaced their early morning. Storms also damaged the Madison County Airport and Ohio State University's Molly Karen Center where the Farm Science Review is held a couple miles away. Another home hit hard. The second floor torn off according to Madison County Sheriff John Swinney. 4 homes were destroyed, but no one got hurt. It worries you when you think about your residents get hurt. I know one of my personally noon went to the house and checked on them. We checked on the one. That was just a nice to hear. >> And, you know, to have that type of devastation and nobody get hurt. It's just really thankful. Even though most of the walls ceilings in just about everything inside shoe makers, parents, house is gone. >> The family's glad they still have each other. Take the siren seriously. And, you know. I can kiss your loved ones because you never know. >> This is definitely shocking to us. >> It got colder just about as soon as the storms rolled through this morning. It is only gotten even colder. Since then. You might be able to hear some generators around me at last check with APS outage map about 300 customers in this area. Do not have power right now. Local for you in Madison County, I'm Eric Halperin. Nbc 4. All right. Eric, thank. You know, it might not be their busy season for land fruit farm, but it still has a big sale a couple days a month. >> And they took some damage after a tornado touched down in licking county this morning. The owner of the Farm wonders if it's going to be ready in time for that sale. NBC4's Jackie Gillis spoke with him. >> And joins us now to show us some more of that damage. Jackie. >> Driver injured. I want to show you some of the damage that is here on the property. If you take a look over here, this is the roof of from some of the properties here. I live in different farm. Luckily no one was here this morning. No one was hurt, but I'm told it is way too windy to begin. Cleanup efforts here today. Now, according to the National Weather Service, an F one tornado came through Licking county causing damage to the fruit farm and other properties. You can see that power lines are down in parts of the roofs are torn apart. Some of the blue way and landed in neighbors yards just down the road. And when I spoke to and Dylan, the president of Lynn from farm, he says he's thankful that the damage wasn't worse. >> It could have been much worse and the timing could have been much worse this time of the year. We don't have a lot of apples and storage. So there's not a lot of dollars worth of inventory to lose if the power went out for Nick's been extensive period of time or if your buildings went down. So the timings we're blessed to have good timing on this. >> Nolan did have an electrical company out here earlier before any cleanup efforts could begin. The power did have to be turned off. And now coming up at 6, I'm going to be showing you some more damage on other properties on Graham Road local for you in Lincoln County. I'm Jackie Gillis, NBC for Jackie. Thank you. >> The National Weather Service confirms an EF one tornado touched down in Hilliard, young people in the area with the most damage say this experience was frightening. NBC4's and a half men spent the day speaking with neighbors. So what does it look like now? >> Jenin, Jared behind me is one of the most damaged homes in this area. Cleanup crews are hard at work now. People who live around here tell me it was a scary morning, but it has brought the neighborhood together. >> A garage torn off the side of this house. Trees ripped from the ground fence is broken apart. Dave Grove says it was a startling wake-up call. So we were asleep in a bedroom. >> And we both woke up when the winds started to get strong and it just kept getting stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger. He says it all happened fast. But in the moment, you know, when the house started shaking, you don't know. The house going to collapse, but it came and went very quickly. And then we came out to see what happened in Grove says the garage we just showed you blew into the side of his house down the street siding ripped off other homes and roofs damaged people in this neighborhood did not wait to come out and help. >> My house got very little damage to houses down the street are severely damaged. So I feel really helpless spent at least I can, you know, help people go out today and hear what they can to get clean up. Grove says he filled multiple trash cans with debris. I'm now know every all the neighbors, but, you know, the neighborhoods been pretty close. Crews from the National Weather Service did come by to survey the damage to his neighbors say even with the looks of the damage, they feel lucky. >> Well, the main thing is that nobody is hurt. You know, everything else is just stuff. >> Police firefighters and the American Red Cross have been coming by all days to help those in need local for you. In West Columbus, I'm and a half men. Nbc for Anne. Thank you. Storm team 4 Chief meteorologist Dave Maza joins us now. >> A abrupt kind of mourning for a lot of us waking up to the sound of those sirens don't. And a lot of this severe weather potential was expected overnight last night into this morning. And, you know, you just hate seeing some of these pictures out there, but love to hear that everyone is OK, which is the most important thing now tonight, still dealing with a lot of wind out there, but thankfully not the kind of weather that we had yesterday. You notice we've got lake effect. Snow showers coming off areas that had tornadoes in Michigan early this morning. So quite a difference in temperatures for everybody. We're dropping down to near freezing already at 33 currently here in the city. And it is windy outside. Wind gusts have been hauling into the 30's 40 mile an hour range. But notice this is some good news. The winds will start to relax as a little bit as we head through the rest of the evening hours tonight. >> But it is still going to give us some bitter wind chills to start the morning off on Thursday and temperature wise. We're sitting at 33 right now. Numbers will fall below freezing by 09:00PM. We'll be down to 30. We'll track a cold start to the day on Thursday. But a remarkable turnaround in temperatures for the weekend. Coming up in a few minutes. We'll see you then. You finally you can get the most accurate forecast in the palm of your
