What appears to be rotation is not within the storm - put a marker on that ‘couplet’ in any frame and you’ll see it’s way out in the inflow channel, not within the meso.
On the Lenapah rotation warning:
* At 304 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm with strong low level rotation
that could produce a tornado at any time was located 5 miles
northeast of Lenapah, moving northeast at 30 mph.
Unusual wording?
You can find that here: https://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/href/?model=href&product=guidance_tor_spchazcal_024h§or=conus&rd=20190430&rt=1200
This is the 24-hr calibrated tornado probs under SPC Guidance.
If you want post-event verification stats follow @jimmyc42 on Twitter. SPC categories are based on probabilities so you can't really just go by the description of the category. 17 tornadoes and 493 wind reports probably verified the 10/45% tor/wind probs nicely - they actually expanded the moderate at 2000Z which wouldn't have happened if they felt it was going off-track.
Isn’t there a couplet and TDS all the way from Spiveys Corner to the Smithfield warning polygon here? That started out as ‘a tornado was reported...’ but still radar-indicated too which seems odd.
The outflow boundary I mentioned earlier pushing ahead of the line over SC looks to be playing a part in getting these more discrete cells to develop as they cross into SE NC. Loop is 38MB for those on data.
GOES-16 IR loop
Couple of decent outflow boundaries over SC that have pushed ahead of the line; looks like there's a small east-west OFB from the sub-severe convection over eastern NC just north of the central-southern NC/SC border as well.
That must be an error I'd have thought; you can get some odd polygons on CWA boundaries (that explains the top-right corner on this one) but this doesn't even fit a county outline.