EF0 tornado in Chester County, South Carolina

Tornado November 21, 2023 · Chester County, South Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.0 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 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

NWS storm survey found the path of a very brief and weak tornado that touched down along Breeland Dr just off Leeds Rd. Damage consisted of a few downed large tree limbs and one split tree. Path length was estimated due to inaccessibility beyond Breeland Dr.

The wider storm

A band of precipitation, with embedded heavy rain showers and isolated thunderstorms moved across the South Carolina Piedmont in association with an area of low pressure and attendant cold front. One of the storms produced a very brief and very weak tornado in southwest Chester County.

Began near Leeds (34.6090, -81.3800).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1148410. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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