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EF0 tornado in Barnwell County, South Carolina

Tornado April 10, 2009 · Barnwell County, South Carolina

EF0
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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 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

The tornado that tracked across Burke county GA, jumped the river and briefly touched down in Barnwell county near the Savannah River site taking down trees.

The wider storm

Supercell thunderstorms moved across the lower midlands and produced large tornadoes. Other storms in the central midlands produced large hail and microburst wind damage. The largest tornado tracked across Aiken county along highway 278. There was one indirect fatality and around a dozen people were sent to the hospital. Several homes were destroyed and many had moderate to severe damage. Widespread trees and powerlines were also down in Aiken county. Total damage estimate was 6 million dollars.

Began near Robbins (33.1200, -81.6330).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF3 Aiken County 1 deadEF0 Barnwell County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 154428. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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