EF0 tornado in Orangeburg County, South Carolina

Tornado April 5, 2022 · Orangeburg County, South Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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 near Bowman. The tornado had a path

length of about 0.75 miles with a maximum path width of 200 yards.

The peak wind associated with the tornado was 85 mph. The tornado touched down near Wayside Dr where it removed

portions of the tin exterior of a farm equipment storage barn and

shifted an unanchored helicopter more than 90 degrees. The

tornado then moved northeast across Dairy Ave where it caused

damage to approximately 6 acres of a solar farm. The tornado then

dissipated near Bowman Branch Hwy.

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 Bowman (33.3340, -80.6961).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Bamberg County EF2 Aiken County EF2 Clarendon County EF1 Lexington County EF1 Bamberg County EF0 Bamberg County EF0 Orangeburg County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1007125. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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