EF0 tornado in Calhoun County, South Carolina

Tornado January 4, 2023 · Calhoun County, South Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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 a brief EF-0 tornado with peak

winds of 75 mph in western Calhoun County. The tornado briefly developed east of

Ott Sisters Road before crossing Sweetbay Road. Several pine trees were snapped

and uprooted in a small wooded area, only producing damage for 200 yards. The

damage was further corroborated with a short lived debris signature on the KCAE

radar.

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 Hammond Xrds (33.7079, -80.9301).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Lexington County EF0 Aiken County EF0 Lexington County EF0 Lexington County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1065049. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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