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My Brush with the Myrtle Beach Tornado in 2001

That afternoon started like any other summer afternoon.  It was hot and humid and a few storms were already popping up around the area. As I watched the storms develop on radar, I noticed the Columbia doppler radar was down for maintenance so I relied solely on the Wilmington doppler radar.  All of a sudden, as if the radar had been turned off, I lost all data from that site as well.  It turns out the radar had been knocked out by lightning from the very storm that would produce the tornado in Myrtle Beach. Talk about a series of unfortunate events. From a radar perspective, I was now flying blind. About 15-20 minutes later, I got a call from a frantic lady who swears a tornado had just passed by their hotel on 28th Avenue North. Other calls came in with reports of power poles being snapped.  I was a bit skeptical . Tornadoes are rare in the first place, and we were also way past our primary tornado season. But with no radar to reference, I went outside on the back deck of the weather center to take a look.  From that spot, I had an ideal view of the north end of the Grand Strand.  Utterly shocked, I saw a water spout/tornado coming ashore between 10th and 15th avenues north heading right for the Pavilion and our office!  I ran inside, told the Pavilion management what was unfolding then turned our tower camera northward to get a view. Immediately, the wind started howling and our only window was being blasted by sand from the beach that was being sucked toward the tornado. I didn't hesitate to do what I tell everyone else to do. I took cover in the small, interior bathroom in the office.  It seemed like I was in there for an eternity, but it turns out I was there for only about a minute! Once the roaring sound of the wind subsided, I rushed outside, looked up and was stunned to see this magnificent funnel reaching from the cloud to the ground near 5th Avenue North, just 3 blocks south of me.  This thing was big...MUCH bigger than when I first saw it north of the Pavilion.  From there, my meteorological instincts took over. I got on the phone with my boss and she immediately got me on the air with anchors Allyson Floyd and Keith Sterling. Our tower camera had a perfect shot of a large tornado moving south through Myrtle Beach. We were able to share it live with everyone watching. Over the next 30-45 minutes, the tornado hopped back and forth between the ocean and land before becoming obscured by rain and lifting near Springmaid Resort.

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For roughly a century, the heart of Myrtle Beach was tangible by a place simply called “the Pavilion.” From the initial make up built in 1908, the Pavilion was the core of the review town’s flourishing tourism industry. It was a end indicate for any person forthcoming to the Grand Strand. Here you could saunter the Boardwalk, fool around colonnade games, make faces in fun mirrors, float rides, dance the Carolina Shag, or lay on a dais and watch everybody else do all of the above. The Pavilion underwent a few incarnations. The first ones were wooden and vulnerable, but the last was solid and apparently indestructible, station for scarcely 60 years. Hardly an architectural marvel, what the Pavilion lacked in grandeur, it made up for in pristine out-of-date fun. The dear make up and its rides fell chase to economics and a wrecking round in 2006.

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