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EF0 tornado in York County, South Carolina

Tornado December 29, 2024 · York County, South Carolina

EF0

Rating

3.0 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 en EF0 tornado that began along Highway 161 just south of the intersection with Highway 55 where several trees were uprooted. The tornado moved northeast, crossing Wilmoth Rd, Beamguard Rd and Highway 55 where additional trees were uprooted and large limbs snapped. The tornado dissipated shortly after crossing Knox 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 Bethany (35.1130, -81.3060).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Spartanburg County EF0 Union County EF0 Union County EF0 Union County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1225676. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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