Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning's storms and wind might've woken you out of your sleep, but it could've been a lot worse.

The National Weather Service in Wilmington, Ohio confirmed five tornadoes just a few hours away from us.

One of those tornadoes, rated EF-2, hit Clark County on the south side of Springfield.
Some homes had roofs torn off, while the famous Young's Jersey Dairy lost a barn to the strong winds.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base got hit by an EF-1 tornado that did damage to the Air Force Museum's Restoration Hangar.

Another tornado hit Franklin County, where Columbus is.

Damaging straightline wind gusts outside of the tornadoes left thousands without power.

21 News chief meteorologist Eric Wilhelm described just how rare these out-of-season outbreaks are now compared to decades past.

"These kinds of things can happen in February, but they're very, very unusual this far to the north," Wilhelm says. "Climate change kind of loads the dice in favor of unusual or extreme outcomes. We can't attribute every weird weather event to climate change, but it does tilt the odds in favor of more of those kinds of events. And so February overall has been remarkably warm and humid in so much of the country, it's no big surprise that we had kind of an unusual severe weather outbreak."

The National Weather Service also confirmed a second tornado in Franklin County and another in Madison County, bringing the total to five.
That same part of the state saw violent tornadoes in the 1974 "Super Outbreak".
The 50th anniversary is in exactly five weeks on April 3.