The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has confirmed that what looks like a supercell storm ripped through Mpumalanga between Ermelo and Piet Retief on Friday.

“There is some indication that it was a supercell storm… there are characteristics that it might have been a tornado,” Bipuo Tawana for SAWS told According to Storm Report who posted the video, “the tornado looks like it was a multi-vortex tornado”.