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EF0 tornado in Abbeville County, South Carolina

Tornado March 1, 2019 · Abbeville County, South Carolina

EF0
Rating
1.5 mi
Path length
75 yd
Path width
$50K
Damage as recorded
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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 EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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

NWS storm survey found the path of a weak tornado on the north side of the city of Abbeville. The tornado touched down near the intersection of Beltline Rd and Highway 20. The tornado moved due east through a forested area before impacting a residential neighborhood near the intersection of Mt Olive Church Rd and Old Douglas Mill Rd. In addition to numerous trees and power lines being blown down along the path, a large oak tree fell through a home, a metal carport was ripped from another home, and column supports torn from another home in this area.

The wider storm

An area of showers and isolated thunderstorms moved across Upstate South Carolina during the afternoon and evening in association with a cold front. One storm produced a brief, weak tornado in the city of Abbeville.

Began near Abbeville (34.2030, -82.3910).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 813542. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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