F1 tornado in Colleton County, South Carolina

Tornado September 3, 1998 · Colleton County, South Carolina

Rating

18.0 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

Death

Injuries

$360K

Damage as recorded

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

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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 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

Tornado damage was confined mostly to wooded marsh area which uprooted or snapped off trees.

Began near Bennetts Pt (32.4800, -80.4200).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Berkeley County F1 Colleton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5664053. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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