EF0 tornado in Newberry County, South Carolina

Tornado April 19, 2019 · Newberry County, South Carolina

EF0

Rating

2.2 mi

Whole path

25 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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

An EF-0 tornado briefly touched down near US Hwy 176 and moved quickly north to Mollys Rock Rd where it dissipated. Most of the damage was restricted to a small area along Mollys Rock Rd. There were three hardwood trees and one softwood tree that were snapped. One large oak tree was snapped off near the ground and the other

trees were snapped off about 15 to 20 feet above the ground.

The wider storm

Moderate to strong atmospheric instability and shear led to a line of showers and thunderstorms along a cold front, that moved east across the region during the afternoon, producing wind damage along with some embedded tornadoes.

NWS Storm Survey teams found that a total of 5 tornadoes occurred. Considerable thunderstorm downburst wind damage also occurred. A 3-year-old boy was killed when a large tree, that was downed by strong thunderstorm winds, fell onto his home near Sumter, SC.

Began near Browns Xrds (34.3812, -81.5456).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Orangeburg County EF2 Clarendon County EF1 Orangeburg County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 813556. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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