F1 tornado in Sumter County, South Carolina

Tornado September 7, 2004 · Sumter County, South Carolina

Rating

3.0 mi

Path length

400 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 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

Shaw AFB reported many homes with light damage and a few with moderate damage as an F1 touched down between the runways and moved across the base. Many trees and powerlines were also down.

Began near Shaw Afb (33.9700, -80.4833).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5414725. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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