EF0 tornado in Anderson County, South Carolina

Tornado January 11, 2020 · Anderson County, South Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.7 mi

Whole path

30 yd

Path width

$1K

Damage as recorded

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

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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

NWS storm survey found a very short weak anticyclonic tornado damage path within a larger area of straight-line wind damage near the Oconee County line south of Townville. The tornado touched down south of Fairplay Rd near Little Beaverdam Creek and tracked NE paralleling the county line before lifting just south of the center of Townville. Multiple trees were uprooted while damage was limited to metal sheeting removed from an outbuilding near the end of the path.

The wider storm

Multiple lines of thunderstorms developed across the western Carolinas in advance of a cold front during the late afternoon and evening. Some of these lines produced swaths of wind damage along with brief, weak tornadoes across Upstate South Carolina.

Began near Townville (34.5500, -82.9140).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Anderson County EF0 Abbeville County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 871142. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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