Here is a picture from North Carolina
Picture: MT @wxrjm: 438 pm EDT: Greene County #NC tornado-warned storm pic.twitter.com/1Gv7xapTlW
— Johnny Kelly (@stormchaser4850) April 25, 2014
Here’s another one, too…
Large tornado near Farmville NC @NWSMoreheadCity @reedtimmerTVN #ncwx pic.twitter.com/10dK2a8lto
— John Astle (@THEBIGJRA) April 25, 2014
And later, this…
Developing: Picture: MT @wxrjm: #Tornado on the ground N of Greenville, #NC (5:27pm EDT) pic.twitter.com/GAFlXgOyJ6
— Johnny Kelly (@stormchaser4850) April 25, 2014
Or this video during the tornado warning – though, it doesn’t show a tornado on the ground.
That is from the afternoon of 4/25/14.
In the morning, Al Roker said this.
I have no vendetta against Al Roker. I think he does a fine job and seems to be a great and fun guy. But this is a lesson to young TV meteorologists.
Never. EVER. EVER! Say there isn’t the threat for tornadoes during a severe weather event in April. Especially when the Storm Prediction Center – and those guys know a lot – circle the area with a five-percent risk.
By the way, here is a screenshot from the morning from the SPC.