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EF0 tornado in Horry County, South Carolina

Tornado April 5, 2022 · Horry County, South Carolina

EF0
Rating
5.4 mi
Whole path
40 yd
Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Marion County → Horry 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 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

This tornado formed in Marion County just west of the Pee Dee River prior to moving into Horry County. After the tornado moved into Horry County it gradually weakened but it caused damage to trees and some structures as it moved across Gunters Island Road and nearly parallel to Old Camp Road. The tornado then moved across Pee Dee Road South causing additional damage to a few homes and several trees, before finally dissipated near Luck Road. While in Marion County, it was rated as EF-1 (100 mph), but in Horry County it was rated EF-0 (80 mph). Average path width in Horry County was 40 yards.

The wider storm

A strong shortwave helped initiate pre-frontal convection in a high shear and moderately unstable environment.

Began near Tompkins (33.9006, -79.2954).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1032177. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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