F0 tornado in Chesterfield County, South Carolina

Tornado July 24, 1997 · Chesterfield County, South Carolina

Rating

3.0 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

$25K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Kershaw County → Chesterfield County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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

The F1 tornado that crossed over from Kershaw county diminished to an F0 tornado and only took down some trees.

Began near Mc Bee (34.4800, -80.3200).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Lexington County 1 dead F2 Kershaw County F1 Richland County F0 Richland County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5602095. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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