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EF1 tornado in Calhoun County, South Carolina

Tornado April 5, 2022 · Calhoun County, South Carolina

EF1
Rating
5.8 mi
Whole path
40 yd
Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Lexington County → Calhoun County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 yards (0.02 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The tornado touched down in Lexington County along US Hwy 321 just north of the

town of Gaston. The tornado moved east and crossed into Calhoun County near Dixon

Rd and Savany Hunt Creek Rd. The tornado then crossed I-26 near mile marker 122.

Between the county line and I-26, the tornado brought down numerous large limbs,

uprooted trees and snapped a few pine trees. The tornado continued northeast to

Plantation Estates Rd. The tornado uprooted and snapped several pine trees. The

tornado ended just before reaching the Congaree River.

The wider storm

An upper level disturbance and the interaction of surface boundaries, along with increasing moisture, led to thunderstorms that developed and moved east across the region during the afternoon. Sufficient atmospheric instability and shear led some of the thunderstorms to produce damaging wind and tornadoes, along with locally heavy rain.

Began near Hammond Xrds (33.8440, -81.0380).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

7 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF3 Bamberg CountyEF2 Aiken CountyEF2 Clarendon CountyEF1 Bamberg CountyEF0 Bamberg CountyEF0 Orangeburg CountyEF0 Orangeburg County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1007056. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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