F1 tornado in Clarendon County, South Carolina

Tornado September 27, 2004 · Clarendon County, South Carolina

Rating

3.0 mi

Path length

400 yd

Path width

Injuries

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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

An F1 tornado destroyed 2 mobile homes and damaged several others. Light to moderate damage occurred to the elementary school and its busses. Severe damage occurred to large open air outbuildings at a mill across the street from the school.

Began near Alcolu (33.7500, -80.2667).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Fairfield County 1 dead F1 Newberry County F0 Aiken County F0 Saluda County F0 Newberry County F0 Lexington County F0 Lee County F0 Chesterfield County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5414794. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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