EF0 tornado in Pickens County, South Carolina

Tornado April 13, 2020 · Pickens County, South Carolina

EF0

Rating

16.7 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

Death

Injuries

$100.0M

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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 tornado that began in Oconee County moved into Pickens County on Lake Keowee about 2 miles north of Clemson Blvd. Damage in Pickens County was primarily confined to snapped large tree limbs before the tornado lifted in the area around Six Mile Highway and R C Edwards School Rd.

The wider storm

A strong storm system impacted the Southeast, resulting in a line of strong to severe thunderstorms that moved across upstate South Carolina during the early morning hours of the 13th. This resulted in severe weather, including a couple of strong tornadoes, one of which was the strongest tornado to impact the upstate area in more than 25 years.

Began near Clemson (34.7190, -82.8570).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Pickens County EF1 Oconee County EF0 Pickens County EF0 Greenville County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 886135. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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