WCNC Charlotte Chief Meteorologist Brad Panovich said some rotation was spotted on the radar in the area.
ROCK HILL, S.C. — Weather radar data suggests a brief tornado may have happened Friday evening in the Rock Hill area.
WCNC Charlotte Chief Meteorologist Brad Panovich received a video of what appeared to be a tornado from viewer Amber Burns Irvin. Irvin shot the video along Percival Road just north of South Fork Road near Brattonsville and told Panovich her barn, a playset, and a few trees suffered damage.
Panovich confirmed that radar data suggests a tornado did spin up in that area, which is just east of the McConnells community as well.
Tornado warnings were issued for parts of Lancaster and Chesterfield counties in South Carolina around 3:45 p.m., with those warnings expiring about 30 minutes later.
Friday was a day that WCNC Charlotte’s Weather Impact Team urged neighbors to stay Weather Impact Alert as a line of severe thunderstorms was expected to sweep across the Carolinas with the threat of bringing damaging winds and hail.
Multiple severe thunderstorm watches and tornado watches were canceled once the initial wave of storms passed through the region by 5 p.m. Friday.
The WCNC Weather Impact Team forecast the storms to push through the Charlotte area between 12 p.m. and 6 p.m., and they were correct. Storms started to develop in the mountains closer to the beginning of that timeframe and moved out of our area right before the evening commute. These storms moved quickly, and parts of the line of storms moved at 45 mph.
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