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EF0 tornado in Union County, South Carolina

Tornado December 29, 2024 · Union County, South Carolina

EF0
Rating
7.0 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
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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

NWS damage survey found the path of an EF0 tornado that touched down on the eastern end of County Landfill Road where several large limbs were snapped and a tree blown down. The tornado moved north-northeast, crossing Old Ferry Rd, were several trees were uprooted. The tornado reached peak intensity as it crossed SC Highway 49 and moved along Phillip Church Rd, where a number of trees were uprooted and large limbs snapped. The tornado crossed Black Bottom Rd, where several trees were downed before it weakened as it crossed SC Highway 9. The tornado downed several large limbs as it crossed Bailey Town Rd before dissipating.

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 Carem (34.7100, -81.5530).

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 1225675. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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