EF0 tornado — Anderson County, South Carolina

EF0 tornado in Anderson County, South Carolina

Tornado January 11, 2020 · Anderson County, South Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.7 mi

Path length

160 yd

Path width

$1K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 160 yards (0.09 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 the path of a short track, weak tornado south of Piedmont. The tornado touched down just west of Childs Rd and tracked north/northeast along Osteen Hill Rd before lifting along River Hill Ct. Multiple trees were uprooted and small trees snapped along the length of the path. Structural damage was limited to a metal carport that was torn from a house on Smith Dr.

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.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 871144. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Anderson County, South Carolina

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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