This afternoons storm. An efzero tornado touched down at dixiana road and charleston highway. Grace chapel on dixiana suffered damage. The gymnasiums sheet metal doors were blown out and ended up in the cemetery there. Dot crews are clearing trees from the road. Fortunately, no major structural damage was reported. According to the National Weather service, the tornado was. 6 miles long and 5075 yards wide. Stay on top of Severe Weather headed your way app. Stay on top of Severe Weather apply. The clintons camp is in the palmetto state to try and win the minority vote. Today former president bill clinton met with Top Democrats at the state house and spoke at a rally at Allen University. Chad mills is there chad. This was president bill clintons first visit to Allen University since sixteen years ago in 2000. Of course, he was here in support of his wife, Hillary Clinton. President clinton said this 2016 election is the most important one hes ever had to vote in and said the clinton is
Another chance of rain may move into the midlands by sunday as low looks to form off the coast late saturday into sunday. Today, scattered morning shows, breezy and mild as we start out in the e60s. Warm and windy by midday with scattered showers and thunderstorms, some heavy rain possible. Highs lower 70s, rain chance 100 . The timing of todays rain is best from 11am ripped through their neighborhoods. Homes were damaged. Along with a federal Corrections Institute. Raycoms josh gauntt talked to a pastor who lost his home. But his church was saved. Its bad its real bad this is whats left of a pastors home on Martin Luther king road in the sappsbeavertown area near aliceville in Pickens County. Strong winds blew the home off its foundation. The Church Next Door. Still standing. Nats down the street. Powerful winds split this mobile home down the middle. And nearly pushed it in the road. Power lines are down. Trees arestrewn all about. But emergency Officials Say thankfully no one has se
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
Other than that, moving to the west, absolutely dry. Rain splitting the state at this time. And thats been the case for, oh, the last 24 hours or a lot of this. We look at some of the rainfall totals. Manning, six inches of rain. Orangeburg, 3 1 4. Two in st. Matthews. Three in sumter as well. Over an inch and a half. Inch and 3 4 for us here in columbia. Still some really good totals but out towards the east towards king street and those areas are upwards of six inches of rain and a ton of rain and more rain coming for those areas along that i95 and st. So were looking at temperatures pretty much where they were this morning. We were at 59 this morning and weve cooled off to 57 this afternoon. Well cononnue to cool off this afternoon. I did see a high around 60 so scattered showers through the night tonight. A lot of cold air on the way. Details coming up in the full forecast. The National Weather service intersection of charleston highway and dixiana road. Look at this video that was
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