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EF0 tornado in Spartanburg County, South Carolina

Tornado December 29, 2024 · Spartanburg County, South Carolina

EF0
Rating
1.7 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

NWS damage survey determined that a weak tornado touched down in a wooded area along the middle Tyger River, just east of Jug Factory Rd where large limbs were snapped off trees. The tornado tracked to The northeast and crossed Sloan Rd, were a large tree was uprooted and additional large limbs snapped. The tornado reached peak intensity as it crossed Holly Springs Church Rd and Bradley Dill Rd, where additional trees were uprooted and more limbs snapped. The tornado dissipated in a wooded area just east of the end of Cooper Rd.

The wider storm

A broken line of low-topped heavy rain showers and embedded thunderstorms developing ahead of a cold front moved from northeast Georgia into upstate South Carolina around sunrise, and moved across the area throughout the morning. The showers and storms produced areas of strong-to-damaging wind gusts, while multiple EF0 tornadoes also occurred.

Began near Holly Spgs (35.0300, -82.2150).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1225672. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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