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EF1 tornado in Richland County, South Carolina

Tornado March 15, 2008 · Richland County, South Carolina

EF1
Rating
27.5 mi
Whole path
220 yd
Path width
2
Injuries
$10K
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 220 yards (0.12 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The EF3 that hit Prosperity gradually weakened as it moved east into Northwest Richland county. Many trees were down and a few mobile homes had moderate damage.

The wider storm

Seven supercells tracked across our South Carolina County Warning Area and produced many long-lived tornadoes that did significant damage. Over 85 homes were destroyed, around 400 had moderate damage, and estimates for the total devastation were around 40 million dollars.

Began near Spring Hill (34.2060, -81.3450).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Bamberg CountyEF2 Kershaw CountyEF2 Kershaw CountyEF2 Saluda CountyEF2 Lexington CountyEF2 Calhoun CountyEF2 Aiken CountyEF2 Lee CountyEF1 McCormick CountyEF1 Chesterfield CountyEF1 Richland CountyEF1 Clarendon CountyEF1 Bamberg CountyEF1 Kershaw CountyEF0 Fairfield CountyEF0 Kershaw CountyEF0 Aiken CountyEF0 Edgefield CountyEF0 Barnwell County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 75981. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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