EF1 tornado in Orangeburg County, South Carolina

Tornado April 5, 2022 · Orangeburg County, South Carolina

EF1

Rating

35.8 mi

Whole path

350 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 350 yards (0.20 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

A National Weather Service survey team confirmed a tornado that began in eastern Allendale County, moved across Bamberg County, and then crossed into Orangeburg County just north of Hwy 78. At its strongest, the tornado was an EF3 in Bamberg County, but produced EF1 damage in Orangeburg County. In Orangeburg County, the tornado approached the North Fork of the Edisto river and impacted a couple of homes, resulting in significant tree damage on both

properties. As the tornado approached Freedom Road in Orangeburg County, it produced EF0 and EF1 damage as it continued to snap trees. The tornado

continued to weaken gradually as it approached Bowman, finally dissipating about 2 miles north of the town.

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 (33.2718, -80.9022).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1011034. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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