EF0 tornado in Jasper County, South Carolina

Tornado July 10, 2025 · Jasper County, South Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.6 mi

Path length

60 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 60 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 team confirmed an EF-0 tornado within the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge in Jasper County. The tornado touched down just east of Plantation Island Trail where it snapped some small tree limbs and the tops of some trees. The tornado moved toward the north-northwest, snapping more small tree limbs, before crossing Laurel Hill Wildlife Drive and ending just south of Highway 170.

The wider storm

Numerous clusters of thunderstorms started developing across southeast South Carolina in the early afternoon hours and gradually spread eastward through the late afternoon. These storms produced damaging wind gusts, frequent cloud to ground lightning, heavy rainfall, and even a weak tornado.

Began near Limehouse (32.1647, -81.0879).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1286241. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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