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EF1 tornado in Lee County, South Carolina

Tornado April 15, 2007 · Lee County, South Carolina

EF1

Rating

3.6 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 EF1 tornado took down numerous trees, a few powerlines, did minor damage to Mt. Pleasant AME church at the intersection of Vista Lane and Wells Church road, and did minor damage to a mobile home.

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 St Charles (34.0478, -80.1552).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 16381. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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