F1 tornado in Lexington County, South Carolina

Tornado February 22, 1993 · Lexington County, South Carolina

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

450 yd

Path width

Injuries

$5.0M

Damage as recorded

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A tornado clipped off or uprooted numerous trees along a 0.5-mile-path. Roof of a house was lifted up and set back down, a mobile home destroyed, another overturned, and severely damaged, roof blown off a garage, shed picked up and destroyed, and four chicken houses damaged.

Began near To 4 Ene (33.9500, -81.4700).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 10346729. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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