EF1 tornado in Lexington County, South Carolina

Tornado June 9, 2025 · Lexington County, South Carolina

EF1

Rating

6.2 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

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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 EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 Team confirmed an EF-

1 tornado south of Chapin in Lexington County. The tornado began

on a peninsula of Lake Murray along Caro Lane, causing a swath of

snapped large limbs and substantial tree debris. Continuing

northeast, the tornado produced minor tree damage as it crossed

Amicks Ferry Road. Further east, substantial tree damage was found

on Lake Tide Drive with several dozen uprooted or snapped trees.

Additional tree damage was found across Sandbar Road and Lazy Creek

Court on the adjacent peninsulas. Numerous snapped limbs and debris

were found around Crooked Creek Park and Old Lexington Highway and

additional EF-1 damage behind Northshore Drive. The tornado crossed

Highway 76 causing a mix of EF-0 and EF-1 tree damage along Crooked

Creek Road and minor housing damage along Hollyoak Lane. The tornado

then lifted northeast of Hollyoak Lane.

The wider storm

The same slow moving long wave trough caused severe weather on preceding days helped trigger and organize another broken line of severe convection in the Midlands of SC on June 9th. Sufficient low level shear and strong instability helped produce two tornadoes along with a swath of scattered damaging winds into the central Midlands.

Began near Ella (34.1229, -81.4043).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 McCormick County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1257750. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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