EF0 tornado in Bamberg County, South Carolina

Tornado April 15, 2007 · Bamberg County, South Carolina

EF0

Rating

4.2 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 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

An EF0 traveled across rural roads southwest to northeast of Ehrhardt taking down trees along its path.

The wider storm

A cold front with strong dynamics and windshear pushed into the area late Saturday and early Sunday. Hail and microbursts accompanied the first wave of storms while the second wave of storms produced a half dozen tornadoes. The largest was an EF3 that killed on person and injured 3 others.

Began near Ehrhardt (33.0700, -81.0000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Sumter County 1 dead EF1 Lee County EF0 Bamberg County EF0 Orangeburg County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 16379. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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