EF1 tornado in Lexington County, South Carolina

Tornado October 31, 2019 · Lexington County, South Carolina

EF1

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 tornado once again touched down near Clinton Sease Farms along Olde Farm Rd. This is the location of the most widespread tree damage and strongest winds. The tornado continued NE and uprooted and snapped nearly two dozen trees between Olde Farm Rd and Rabbit Rd. A small wood building at the farm lost a good portion of its metal

roof. The tornado ended just as it crossed Rabbit Rd.

The wider storm

A line of showers and thunderstorms, along and ahead of a cold front, moved east across the region in the late afternoon and evening of 10/31/2019. Due to sufficient atmospheric instability and shear, some of the thunderstorms were severe and contained a few embedded tornadoes.

Began near Barr (33.9596, -81.3109).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 858837. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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