F0 tornado in Spartanburg County, South Carolina

Tornado January 5, 2007 · Spartanburg County, South Carolina

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A short damage track began on Bethany Church Rd northwest of Moore and extended northeast before ending on highway 290. Two sheds were destroyed and the roof partially blown off a larger shed. Part of a deck was torn off a house. Also, several 8 inch diameter pine trees were snapped and numerous limbs were blown down.

The wider storm

A line of thunderstorms moved rapidly across the upstate. The line produced damaging winds and a few non-supercell tornadoes.

Began near Moore (34.8556, -82.0311).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F1 Pickens County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 13273. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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