EF0 tornado in Florence County, South Carolina

Tornado April 19, 2019 · Florence County, South Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.6 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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

The brief EF-0 tornado touched down south of Woods Bay Rd and west

of Highway 31 near Olanta, SC. The tornado moved toward the

north-northeast and prior to crossing Woods Bay Rd caused minor

damage to a house, lifted a large roof off of a large outbuilding

and shed, and caused several trees to be uprooted. The tornado

crossed Woods Bay Rd causing some damage to trees as it lifted in

the vicinity of Douglas Swamp.

The wider storm

A cold front produced a squall line that formed a severe thunderstorm outbreak with two tornadoes.

Began near Olanta (33.9314, -79.9557).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Williamsburg County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 821381. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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