EF0 tornado in Chester County, South Carolina

Tornado May 23, 2022 · Chester County, South Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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

NWS storm survey found the short path of a weak tornado that touched down near Dewitt Rd between Mathis Dr and Ross Dye Rd and moved north-northeast, snapping numerous tree limbs and uprooting a few trees.

The wider storm

Lines and clusters of thunderstorms developed throughout the afternoon and evening ahead of a frontal system across the South Carolina piedmont. Several of the storms produced brief damaging wind gusts, along with a couple of brief, weak tornadoes.

Began near Beckhamville (34.5720, -80.9830).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Spartanburg County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1029935. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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