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EF0 tornado in Orangeburg County, South Carolina

Tornado April 5, 2022 · Orangeburg County, South Carolina

EF0
Rating
1.0 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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

A National Weather Service storm survey confirmed an EF0 tornado

in Orangeburg County, SC just east of Branchville. The tornado

had a path length of about 1 mile with a maximum path width of

50 yards. The peak wind associated with the tornado was 80 mph.

The tornado touched down in the athletic fields adjacent to

Branchville High School on Dorange Rd. The metal roof was removed

from an equipment shed, the baseball field backstop was missing a

portion of its fencing, and the bleachers were displaced. The

tornado then continued northeast across a field, removing

sections of roof near the intersection of Thompson Rd and Sub Rd,

before dissipating.

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 Branchville (33.2472, -80.7916).

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 Lexington CountyEF1 Bamberg CountyEF0 Bamberg CountyEF0 Orangeburg County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1007124. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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