EF0 tornado in Williamsburg County, South Carolina

Tornado April 19, 2019 · Williamsburg County, South Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

15 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 15 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 EF0 tornado, estimated at 65 mph, touched down briefly southwest of Salters and lifted along Hwy 521. No significant damage was noted other than small limbs and some blown debris. Video was used to confirm the tornado.

The wider storm

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

Began near Salters (33.5900, -79.9000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Florence County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 821561. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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