EF0 tornado in Clarendon County, South Carolina

A National Weather Service storm survey team confirmed an EF-0 tornado, with peak wind speeds of 85 mph, northeast of Santee in Clarendon County, SC. The tornado began along the edge of Lake Marion, just west of I-95, near the Adams Landing community. The tornado uprooted several large hardwood trees and snapped large

branches off of other hardwood trees along Scott Lake Road. The tornado then continued northeast across a portion of Lake Marion, then snapped large branches off of several pine trees along Fort Watson Road in the Santee National Wildlife Refuge, before dissipating.

Hurricane Sally made landfall near Gulf Shores, AL, as a category 2 hurricane, in the early morning of Wednesday, September 16, 2020, and then weakened and turned to the NE, tracking across the Central Savannah River Area of Georgia, and across Central SC, as a post-tropical area of low pressure, on Thursday, September 17. Moisture, instability and low level wind shear, associated with the low, provided tornadoes, heavy rain, and flooding. 48-hour rainfall totals of 2 to 6 inches fell across a large portion of the Midlands of SC, with higher rainfall amounts of 6 to almost 9 inches observed across portions of the southern and eastern Midlands from lower Orangeburg Co NE across S Calhoun Co, Sumter Co, Clarendon Co and S Lee Co SC. A total of 9 confirmed tornadoes occurred in Central SC during the morning and early afternoon of Sept. 17.