on TikTok. The video opens with a three-second clip of clouds that look like a giant wave set to crash down on homes. is the first storm since US National Hurricane Center records began to reach the Category 4 level in June and the earliest to reach Category 5 in July (archived
The clip shared on social media however shows a weather phenomenon that happened years ago and is unrelated to a hurricane, AFP found.is"a widespread, long-lived wind storm that is associated with a band of rapidly moving showers or thunderstorms," common in the Midwest United States, according to the US National Weather Service (archived AFP reached out to ARK media, the company credited in The Weather Channel coverage, but a response was not forthcoming.https://www.youtube.