EF0 tornado in Marion County, South Carolina

Tornado September 27, 2024 · Marion County, South Carolina

EF0

Rating

3.9 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

Survey Summary: An EF0 tornado produced minor tree damage along Bay

Road from near the intersection with Archies Old Place to Truslow

Ct.

The wider storm

Hurricane Helene made landfall along the Gulf Coast of FL in the Big Bend and weakened to a tropical storm before reaching central GA. The storm then turned northwest across the southern Appalachians before weakening to a tropical depression over eastern TN. Tropical Storm Warnings were issued for all of northeast SC. Limited impacts generally occurred across northeast SC.

Began near Britton Neck (33.8512, -79.2757).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Georgetown County EF0 Darlington County EFU Georgetown County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1212292. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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