The Charleston WSFO has raised severe thunderstorm warnings for most of the area, and a tornado has been detected near Hampton SC. Here’s the radar at the moment (just before 6:30pm Christmas Eve) – the tornado is the bright white dot just north (up) from the black circle of no data over the radar station …

Make sure your weather radios are on, or your mobile phones have the emergency alerts active … could be a busy hour or so.