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EF0 tornado in Orangeburg County, South Carolina

Tornado January 4, 2023 · Orangeburg County, South Carolina

EF0
Rating
6.6 mi
Whole path
50 yd
Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Lexington County → Orangeburg County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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

A tornado that touched down in Lexington County, near the intersection of Cedar Creek

Road and US Highway 178, and reached EF-1 intensity, weakened into an EF-0 before

crossing into Orangeburg County just southeast of the intersection of Jones Wire Road

and Woodford Road. The tornado continued in Orangeburg County, causing EF-0 damage with downed trees along the path, as it crossed Savannah Highway (US Hwy 321) then dissipated just northeast of the intersection of Hoffman Road and Lightning Hill 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 Woodford (33.6800, -81.1220).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Aiken CountyEF0 Lexington CountyEF0 Lexington CountyEF0 Calhoun County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1065048. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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