Chief Meteorologist Brad Panovich received a video of the tornado from a WCNC Charlotte viewer.
ROCK HILL, S.C. — A brief tornado occurred in York County on Friday, the National Weather Service confirmed on Monday.
On Friday, WCNC Charlotte Chief Meteorologist Brad Panovich received a video from viewer Amber Burns Irvin of what appeared to be a tornado. Irvin shot the video along Percival Road just north of South Fork Road near Brattonsville and McConnells. Irvin told Panovich her barn, a playset, and a few trees suffered damage.
Panvoich shared the video with the National Weather Service meteorologists, who visited the area on Monday and found storm damage.
Panovich had reviewed weather radar data and suggested a brief tornado may have occurred at 6:33 p.m. in this area, which is south and west of Rock Hill.
On Monday, meteorologists from the National Weather Service visited the location and confirmed they found damage consistent with an EF0 tornado.
The tornado was found to have been on the ground for a quarter of a mile and had maximum winds of 80 mph. The tornado left a path of damage about 25 yards wide.
There were no injuries associated with the tornado.
The tornado came at a time when there were numerous strong-to-severe thunderstorms scattered across the area.
While there was no severe weather warning for this location at the time of the tornado, other tornado warnings were issued for parts of Lancaster and Chesterfield counties in South Carolina around 3:45 p.m.
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.
