EF1 Tornado — Mccormick, South Carolina

2025-06-09 · near Mt Carmel, Mccormick, South Carolina

Event narrative

An NWS Greenville-Spartanburg storm survey confirmed a brief tornado touched down in Bobby Brown State Park in Elbert County, downing trees across Bobby Brown State Park Road and intensifying as it crossed Ranger Road. Dozens of trees were snapped and uprooted as the tornado approached a cove along the Savannah River. Some structural damage to pavilions occurred at the Bobby Brown Recreational Center. Tree damage was observed across the river in McCormick County SC, with some uprooted trees and large limbs broken. It is unknown how far into McCormick County the tornado may have traveled due to lack of roads on US Army Corps of Engineers property.

Wider weather episode

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.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1272768. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.