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EF0 tornado in Horry County, South Carolina

Tornado August 30, 2023 · Horry County, South Carolina

EF0

Rating

1.6 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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

Waterspout was observed moving ashore near Ocean Blvd. and 56th

Avenue North. It tracked north-northwest causing sporadic damage

to homes in the Cherry Grove area. It then crossed Williams Creek

into the Tidewater Golf Club, downing a few trees and numerous

large limbs. There were likely a few brief spin-ups in the

vicinity of the waterspout as it came ashore.

The wider storm

Tropical Storm Idalia moved northeast across northeast South Carolina bringing flooding from heavy rain and storm surge, a few tropical storm force wind gusts and tornadoes late August 30 into August 31. Previously the storm was a Category 4 hurricane. weakening to Category 3 as it made landfall near Perry, Florida. Locally all sustained tropical storm force winds remained offshore.

Began near Cherry Grove Beach (33.8369, -78.6110).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1131436. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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