EF0 tornado in Greenville County, South Carolina

Tornado September 25, 2024 · Greenville County, South Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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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

Emergency manager reported a brief tornado touched down in an area between Jones Gap State Park and River Falls Rd. Multiple trees were blown down and some outbuildings were damaged.

The wider storm

A plume of moisture extending from an intensifying Tropical Cyclone Helene over the Gulf of Mexico interacted with a slow-moving cold front to produce a band of widespread heavy rain showers and embedded scattered thunderstorms over the southern Appalachians and vicinity on the 25th and 26th. One of the embedded storms produced a brief, weak tornado in northern Greenville County.

Began near River Falls (35.1020, -82.5490).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1219191. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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