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EF0 tornado in Union County, South Carolina

Tornado November 16, 2011 · Union County, South Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$1.0M

Damage as recorded

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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 area of weak tornado damage was surveyed near the intersection of Neal Shoals Rd and Fairview Church Circle. Part of the roof was blown off a barn and shingles were removed from a house. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped in the area as well.

The wider storm

An environment of strong wind shear and weak to moderate instability supported the development of a mini-supercell thunderstorm over the eastern Upstate of South Carolina. The storm produced an EF2 tornado in Chester County, along with a couple of weaker tornadoes.

Began near Carem (34.7040, -81.5670).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 York County 3 dead

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 354819. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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