North Carolina Tornadoes Yesterday

Nov 17, 2011; 9:57 AM ET

It’s been a long week in the Southeast, with over three dozen tornado and funnel cloud reports. Much damage was reported from Texas through the Carolinas. Most of the deadly storms happened yesterday.

On a personal note, my friend and meteorologist Frank Strait will no doubt have some interesting things to report later today — a deadly tornado struck just miles south of his home town of Rock Hill, North Carolina last night. Frank uploaded this radar velocity image of the storm before it struck:

As the colors at opposite ends of the scale come together, it means high winds are rotating. Another tornado of note was this one in the Piedmont, which crossed over Route 64 that I take down to the beach every year. Thank goodness it was south of the populated area of I-40.

Damage video from the Associated Press, along with additional information about the Auburn, Alabama tornadoes, can be found below and in our news story.