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EF0 tornado in Lexington County, South Carolina

Tornado October 31, 2019 · Lexington County, South Carolina

EF0
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 final touchdown occurred near Lexington Middle School near the intersection of Dreher St and Harmon St. A large hardwood tree snapped and took down a power line. A small hardwood tree was snapped about 30 feet off the ground. There were several large limbs that came down on a power line along Harmon St. Portions of a wooden fence were blown over behind a home along Dreher St.

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 Lexington (33.9873, -81.2306).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Lexington CountyEF1 Lexington County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 858838. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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