EF0 tornado in Barnwell County, South Carolina

Tornado March 16, 2025 · Barnwell County, South Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.3 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

A National Weather Service storm survey determined that an EF-0 tornado touched down between Snelling and Barnwell, SC with peak winds of 80 mph. The short-lived tornado began in the Sweetwater Country Club, between Fairway Lane and Club House Lane, and moved to the northeast. The tornado uprooted at least 5 large pine trees and snapped several large branches before dissipating around Dunbarton Blvd.

The wider storm

A surface low drifted into Great Lakes region with a cold front and line of convection nearing the forecast area by the early morning hours. Very strong shear dominated throughout the event with instability rather meager. The line of convection moved across the area from the west between 11z and 18-19z, bringing multiple reports of straight line wind damage, an EF-0 tornado in Barnwell County and an EF-1 tornado near Lake Murray in Lexington County.

Began near Barnwell Co Arpt (33.2373, -81.4195).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Lexington County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1232783. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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