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EF0 tornado in Pickens County, South Carolina

Tornado April 13, 2020 · Pickens County, South Carolina

EF0
Rating
7.4 mi
Path length
70 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 70 yards (0.04 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 an EF0 tornado that moved across the Easley area. The tornado began on the west side of the city along Old Liberty Rd. moving east/northeast through the heart of the city, although damage was almost exclusively confined to uprooted pine trees and snapped large tree limbs. The tornado moved east from the city of Easley, roughly paralleling Saluda Dam Rd before lifting near the intersection of Saluda Dam Rd and Antioch 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 Beverly (34.8170, -82.6380).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Oconee County 1 deadEF2 Pickens CountyEF1 Oconee CountyEF0 Greenville County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 886198. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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