CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Severe weather rolled through the Carolinas Thursday bringing rain, hail, and wind. In its wake: downed power lines, trees, and damage to property.
WCNC Charlotte viewers sent in pictures of heavy rain, rotating clouds, and hail as severe storms moved through the Charlotte metro.
Below is the moment WCNC Charlotte Chief Meteorologist Brad Panovich, with the help of Bill McGinty, where using your photos to give "ground truth" to what was appearing on radar. Eyes on the ground allow meteorologists to confirm what radar is detecting above the ground in the atmosphere.
In South Carolina, York County deputies first alerted residents in Clover, South Carolina to downed power lines and a tree in a roadway. In a tweet sent out at 3:20 p.m., YCSO said the lines were down near Lawrence Road and Beamguard Road. A tree was also blocking part of the road, with power dark in the immediate area.
A tractor-trailer accident on I-85 near the ramp to I-77 northbound shutdown traffic. It was not immediately known what caused the incident near uptown Charlotte.
We also got reports of damage and other severe events from viewers on social media; Jake Lackey shared hail hitting his backyard in Lincolnton to chief meteorologist Brad Panovich via Twitter.
Jack Herring, a viewer in Charlotte's Myers Park neighborhood, sent a video of menacing clouds in the skies over the Queen City.
Despite a tornado warning and thunderstorm rotation observed in Mecklenburg County Thursday afternoon, there were no immediate reports of tornado damage in Charlotte or around Mecklenburg County.
Elsewhere across the Carolinas, severe thunderstorms and tornadoes caused damage near Greensboro and Durham.
