Caught this wave rolling in right over the open tree line. It sets off a cool chain reaction across the horizon before a few lighter bolts start streaking closer to the house.
This is the final moments before the core of the storm moved in over the house. The next video I upload shows the absolute wall of water and severe downpours that followed right after this massive branching strike!
We just had a massive downpour pass through Lebanon, TN, and everything cleared out for a moment. You can really see the storm charging back up in this clip before the next wave hits.
Caught this on camera tonight while tracking a cell showing yellow on the Doppler. The atmospheric lightning is constant, but the beginning features a solid ground strike with instant thunder. Feel bad for the resident who was just trying to walk home from the community gym and got caught up in the wind and rain!
Make sure to turn your sound up because the thunder at 0:43 is wild. It was completely dry on the ground when this happened!
For anyone wondering why the thunder didn't have that sharp, ear-splitting "crack," it’s because this is an anvil crawler (or spider lightning). Since the electrical discharge travels horizontally across miles of the sky instead of striking a single point on the ground, the sound waves reach the phone's microphone at slightly different times. This creates that sustained, deep bass roar instead of an instant snap!
We have officially reached the grand finale! I just finished packing all 16 chronological parts of that crazy night into one complete 16-minute and 54-second widescreen movie.
It covers the entire event exactly as it happened: the midnight sirens waking us up, the continuous ground strikes, the severe wind shifts, the massive tornado cone physically vacuuming up the torrential downpour across the street, and the final strobe-lightning storm aftermath. We moved from California earthquakes to a Tennessee supercell factory, and this film shows the whole ride.
Thank you all so much for following this series!
This clip is from Part 15 of our countdown. The severe weather is finally moving out, leaving us with light rain and flickering lightning. However, at the 30-second mark, a wild U-shaped lightning bolt branches off and shoots straight up into the sky directly over my house!
This is our absolute final teaser video. This Sunday, Part 16 will drop as the complete, unbroken 15+ minute movie layout combining all parts into one massive event: the sirens, the high winds, the physical tornado cone, the rain vacuum effect, and the crazy strobe lightning aftermath!
This clip is from Part 14 of our countdown. The severe torrential downpour has finally let up into a regular rain, but the electrical storm isn't quitting. The sky is putting on a constant light show that looks exactly like someone is flicking a light switch on and off as fast as they can, with occasional loud thunder echoing in the background.
We are officially two parts away from the grand finale, where Part 16 will premiere as the full, unbroken 15+ minute movie of the entire night!
This clip is from Part 13 of our countdown. The immediate tornado threat moved east, but the supercell left behind is absolutely drowning the area. The street is rapidly flooding under constant thunder and lightning. If you watch closely when I zoom into the streetlight, the rain is pouring in sheets so dense it looks like a solid stream of water coming right out of a garden hose before it drops.
This clip is from Part 12 of our countdown. The tornado mercifully switched tracks and moved off to the east of us!
It left behind an insane supercell thunderstorm dropping a severe downpour in buckets with flash flooding and continuous strobe-light lightning. Since the immediate danger was gone, I had to move my wife's car into the driveway for a free carwash—you can hear me talking about it right in the video!
This clip is from Part 11 of our countdown. The sirens are continuously blaring and the thunder is erupting the exact millisecond the lightning hits. The wind and rain are completely relentless. There's this deeply ominous feeling that the tornado doesn’t want to move on—like it's just hiding in the shadows, waiting to be destructive.
We don't have a basement here, just a small bathroom located directly in the center of our one-story home. Knowing exactly where our safe room was is the only thing that kept my nerves calm throughout this entire ordeal while capturing this footage.
Part 10-16
This was the April 2025 Tornado that came through the outskirts of Lebanon, TN at 3:00am. We knew it was coming, we were glued to Max Velocity and the Storm Chasers. We were lucky that it shifted directions within a mile of the house.
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Part 9 of 16- 3AM Tennessee Tornado Countdown. The sirens start to blare again as the lightning hits us hard! The tornado cone is out in the field violently sucking the severe rain straight into the funnel! Thank you for watching!
This clip is from Part 8 of our countdown. The rapid-fire lightning strikes continue to illuminate the pitch-black sky, revealing the massive tornado cone tracking through the background. Midway through the video, the sky opens up and the rain begins to absolutely dump. That's when the wind violently picks up and starts physically “sucking” the torrential downpour straight toward the cone like a giant vacuum!
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👉🌪️The sirens are completely silent right now, but they will start blaring again in Part 9 as severe rain and survival mode take over!
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I have an archive of over 400 severe weather videos taken over the past two years, and you won't want to miss them as they drop. In this clip, the lightning and thunder are incredibly loud as multiple solid bolts blast the pasture right across the street. The atmosphere is so supercharged you can literally smell the raw electricity in the air! The severe wind and rain pick up fast, and if you watch until the very end of the video, the lightning flashes finally reveal the actual tornado cone coming into play. [1, 2]
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