EF0 tornado in Greenville County, South Carolina

Tornado April 13, 2020 · Greenville County, South Carolina

EF0

Rating

0.7 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

$20K

Damage as recorded

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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 brief, weak tornado touched down in J Verne Smith Park in Greenville County, downing limbs and uprooting some small trees. The tornado downed more limbs along oneal Church Road, but then uprooted a tree onto a house on Scruggs Circle. The tornado briefly intensified in a wooded area along a small creek between Scruggs Circle and Gratiot Lane, where several trees were uprooted. The tornado rapidly weakened and lifted just beyond this point.

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 Jordon (34.9920, -82.2950).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Oconee County 1 dead EF2 Pickens County EF1 Oconee County EF0 Pickens County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 887085. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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