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Tornado Video

Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 4:15 pm
by Regit
Interesting tornado video here from Sunday afternoon. Under "Video Center" scroll down and click on "Tornado at Timmonsville Hwy." Listening to the people taping it is also entertaining. :lol: Also, click on "S. Center Road Damage." That video has an interview with a man who had his house picked up and was thrown from it.

http://www.scnow.com/midatlantic/scp/home.html#.html

Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 8:15 pm
by itglobalsecure
Thanks for posting. I grew up in Florence, SC. I don't ever recall hearing of a tornado in that area.

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 12:10 am
by Regit
itglobalsecure wrote:Thanks for posting. I grew up in Florence, SC. I don't ever recall hearing of a tornado in that area.



Actually, we usually have at least one that does damage per year. Some notables include one in Marlboro County that cleared a shopping center off of it's foundation in March 1984. It was two miles wide and is officially recorded as an F4. However, during a special aired on local TV in 2004, an NWS official stated that it was "borderline F5." Around 1995 an F3 took out several homes and a church in Marion. The one in the video was estimated today by NWS-ILM to be F2. A mobile home became airborne and several brick homes sustained significant damage.

For more info on the outbreak of 1984, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolinas_Tornado_Outbreak