Originally from palestine says he now feels after an incident on an airplane this week. Happening now, sleeping outside. A live look, philadelphia executives are using boxes as beds to help get an Important Message across. Its 4 31, good morning. Friday morning, this is nbc 10 news today. A lot to cover today. Im tracy davidson. Im chris cato. Its great they are doing that Awareness Campaign but they lucked out weather wise. Two nights from now, wow, a taste of what it means to be unprotected in the elements. Meteorologist bill henley is in with his first alert forecast and off to a warm start. Yeah, and damp but not from the rain thats in the area. Thats cleared the area. This is from last nights rain. You can see a few puddles on beach avenue at the shore. The temperatures are in the 50s. Unusually warm, and looks like were going to see a pretty good good warmup into the upper 50s this afternoon. A steady breeze blowing and lots of sunshine. Your neighborhood by neighborhood forecast
Still thinking low pressure will form off the coast late saturday into sunday. This will give us a slight chance of showers early sunday well feel the chill most of next week with well below normal temperatures. Confirmed tornado to the area yesterday. Multiple witnesses captured a funnel cloud moving over the West Columbia area. Video sent to wis shows what it looked like to the east toward i77. The National Weather Service Confirms that an efzero tornado touched down just north of the State Farmers Market in the town of pine ridge. There have been no reports of any injuries. Parts of lexington county were right in the tornados path. A gymnasium at grace chapel on had some significant damage after two sheet metal doors were ripped out and ended up in a nearby cemetery. Department of transportation crews were out clearing treesone major one that blocked a portion of dixiana road. Workers at a local leesville logging company were left cleaning up after the strong storm ripped through th
But obviously, this is kind of a precursor of whats to come today and plenty of warmth for those storms to get going. 75 degrees in downtown columbia. 75 in orangeburg. Almost everybody into the 70s. Couple of spots due to some rain keeping them a little bit cooler at the moment. We are expecting a very warm and humid day today. Winds sustain around 15 to 20 miles per hour. Gusts upwards of 30 to 35 miles per hour. Right now, were watching this line of storms as you go around just to our west here, you can see were at columbia right here. This line is moving our way. Expected to bring some pretty strong wind gusts as well as some lightning and some heavy downpours of rain. Ill show you what else to expect from this line and when its going to move out coming up in a few minutes. Thank you. Another one bites the dust. This morning, kentucky senator rand paul announced hes suspending his campaign for the republican nomination. He finished fifth in mondays Iowa Caucuses with 4. 5 of the vo
Finally we get a good day of clearing. It certainly was a wild afternoon in the midlands. Whenever you have thunderstorms, theres a chance, albeii small, but theres a chance you can get tornadoes spin up. S thats exactly what happened outust sa there today. Up what started off as a quiet rain day, it ended upbringing a damage and destruction after the tornado touched down in West Columbia. Thh take you out live to jennifer ray, and shes been out on the Farmers Market. We are about a half mile away where you just mentioned that tornado touched down earlier today, and if you look behind me, evidence of that massive tree is one of many, and now crews were out here earlier removing this tree from the up about a half hour ago for safety reasons and tried to clear that as quickly as possible. Also across the street, 321, they were not able to go through the gate but they also did experience damage, and several cars did have window damage, and also crucifixing cars that seem to have appeared
Farley in john farley. You were tracking this thing before it even touched the ground. Yeah. As we went to the afternoon, jonathan and i were looking at this. The way the radar works, it shoots up in the clouds. It sees the rotation. We could see this thing developing and yes, it did touch down. Behind me is the map that the Weather Service put out. Lets go to that. I will show you where it touched down and what the story was on this tornado. It was an ef0, it had winds of 85 miles an hour and it touched down right near charleston and dixiana road, just north of the farmers market. It was on the ground for about half a mile. They say. 6 miles. The width between 50, 75 yard and then grace will be talking about some of the damage that came through and it touched down at 2 28. 2 28 this afternoon. Lets talk about whats happening with the radar. As you can see, there is a lot of green. But this is light to moderate no more Severe Threat going out there. That said, what we do have is all of