WATCH: Surveillance video shows destruction, power of EF-2 tornado hitting SC high school

KERSHAW COUNTY, S.C. — Surveillance video released by the Kershaw County School District shows the destruction and power from a tornado ripped through a South Carolina high school last weekend.

It hit North Central High School last Saturday as an EF-2 tornado with 130 mph winds.

The surveillance video shows just how powerful the tornado was.

The school office is usually a welcoming place, but not when 130 mph winds are tearing through it. You can see a window blow out, papers flying and ceiling tiles fall to the ground.

In a hallway, you can see wind sucking things down like a vacuum. Then, the camera shakes and ceiling tiles fall.

Within seconds, the hallway is littered with debris.

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EF-2 tornado hits South Carolina high school (WSOC)

In the gym, things looked calm at first, but then you see lights begin to flicker on and a bunch of water pour through the ceiling.

The tornado damaged just about every building on North Central’s campus and officials told Channel 9′s DaShawn Brown of a fleet of nearly 30 buses, only three can be salvaged.

Thankfully, no one was at the school at the time.

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