Posted: 11:07 am EDT May 6, 2009Updated: 11:10 pm EDT May 6, 2009
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Viewers snapped photos of a funnel cloud that formed Wednesday evening near the campus of UNC Charlotte. One of them, Lacy Beatty, told Channel 9 Eyewitness News that the funnel moved over the campus in northeast Charlotte.
"It started moving really slow, then started getting tighter at the bottom and getting lower and lower," said Beatty.
Other viewers also sent Eyewitness News pictures of the same funnel cloud swooping over northeast Charlotte Wednesday evening.
Channel 9 chief meteorologist Steve Udelson reviewed radar images from Live Early Warning Doppler 9. Udelson said the radar showed a bow echo, which is characteristic of rotating winds, moving over UNC Charlotte at the same time that Beatty said she saw the funnel cloud.
"We're fortunate that the funnel cloud didn't touch down," said Udelson.
Thunderstorms moved through the Charlotte area on Wednesday and tornado warnings were issued in several counties. All of the warnings expired with no reports of any significant damage.
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