F0 tornado in Lexington County, South Carolina

Tornado September 27, 2004 · Lexington County, South Carolina

Rating

1.0 mi

Path length

80 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 80 yards (0.05 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 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 F0 touchd down on Devils Backbone road in taking down trees which just missed several homes.

Began near Lexington (34.0300, -81.4167).

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 Clarendon County F1 Newberry County F0 Aiken County F0 Saluda County F0 Newberry County F0 Lee County F0 Chesterfield County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5414802. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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