Tornadoes, Waterspouts: NC,SC,FL

Several tornadoes and waterspouts were reported in the Carolinas and Florida over the weekend. Radar loops from yesterday afternoon out of Charleston and Wilmington are available as Quicktime movies.

A weak tornado in Florida ripped the roof off of an apartment building in Apopka, Florida Saturday night, according to Local6.com. The storm, which also featured 3/4-inch hail (large hail is unusual in Florida), knocked out power to 1,300 in the community, WESH.com said. You can read the report online from the NWS office in Melbourne, Florida.

At Surfside Beach, South Carolina, trees and a sign were downed while waterspouts were sighted Sunday afternoon "east of Myrtle Beach and south of Little River" according to The NWS [JessePedia] through MyrtleBeachOnline.com. Little River [Google Map] is near the NC/SC border, not far from My Beach [JessePedia].

An Interesting S-Shaped Storm Looms Offshore Sunday Afternoon

Then last night around 10 PM, multiple funnel clouds and tornadoes were reported to the NWS near Beaufort, South Carolina.

That article also notes that "Gale-force winds were reported at the Coast Guard station in Oak Island, N.C. around 4 p.m. Sunday." In addition, The NWS reported that the Edisto Buoy (41004) gusted to 47 mph at 8:20 PM even though their graph of data did not indicate it.