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EF0 tornado in Aiken County, South Carolina

Tornado January 4, 2023 · Aiken County, South Carolina

EF0

Rating

3.5 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 survey team confirmed an EF-0 tornado with peak winds of

80 mph that tracked south of Wagener in Aiken County. The tornado started near

Stonemill Road, crossing Holiness Church Road then moved northeast across South Dixie

Road and dissipated near Jeffcoat Road. Over the 3.5 mile track, the tornado destroyed

a dock outbuilding and snapped and uprooted multiple pine trees particularly along Otis

Baughman Sr Road.

The wider storm

A prefrontal band of showers and thunderstorms produced some wind damage, as well as several tornadoes in the central Midlands of SC in the morning.

Began near Wagener (33.6098, -81.3907).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Lexington County EF0 Lexington County EF0 Lexington County EF0 Calhoun County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1064986. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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