EF0 tornado in Fairfield County, South Carolina

Tornado December 29, 2024 · Fairfield County, South Carolina

EF0

Rating

8.0 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Fairfield County → Fairfield County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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

An EF-0 tornado with 80 mph peak winds began near Highway 269 and Mockingbird Ln where it snapped a few limbs. The tornado continued east crossing Bundrick Rd, snapping large limbs, uprooting a tree, and caused minor shingle damage to a home. The tornado crossed Greenbrier Mossydale Rd, High Hill Rd, and West Peach Rd, causing additional minor tree damage and some minor shingle damage to a couple of homes. It then shifted northeast, crossing Highway 321 where minor tree damage occurred before dissipating.

The wider storm

A deep upper trough and an associated surface prefrontal trough translated from the Deep South into the Southeast during the morning hours. A long-lived QLCS containing strong to severe storms propagated along with the prefrontal trough, likely cold-pool dominated. This QLCS produced multiple reports of wind damage as well as multiple confirmed tornadoes.

Began near Rion (34.2842, -81.1384).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Richland County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1221824. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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