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EF0 tornado in Lexington County, South Carolina

Tornado January 4, 2023 · Lexington County, South Carolina

EF0
Rating
4.6 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

National Weather Service survey team confirmed an EF-0 tornado with peak winds of

75 mph that tracked across central Lexington county, north of Shuler. The tornado

began near the Bluefield West neighborhood, located east of McLee Rd, where it

caused some minor damage including overturning playground equipment. The tornado

then moved eastward across S Lake Drive, Cathy Lane and Old Orangeburg Rd before

continuing east-southeast across Beckman Road then into an inaccessible field.

Farther southeast along its path, the tornado crossed Norman Drive and Highway 302

near Gator Drive, before dissipating near Greenwood Drive. Along its approximately 4.7

mile path, the tornado produced sporadic damage mainly snapping and uprooting trees

and large branches.

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 Edmund (33.8849, -81.2369).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Lexington CountyEF0 Aiken CountyEF0 Lexington CountyEF0 Calhoun County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1065036. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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