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EF0 tornado in Georgetown County, South Carolina

Tornado August 3, 2020 · Georgetown County, South Carolina

EF0
Rating
0.2 mi
Path length
30 yd
Path width
1
Injury
$100K
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

Waterspout moved onshore near 813 South Waccamaw Dr in Garden

City. It caused damage to a few homes as it quickly moved across

the island. It dissipated over the adjacent marshes west of the

island. An injury occurred at one of the homes along the beach

front.

The wider storm

Hurricane Isaias came off the African coast as a tropical wave on July 23, 2020. It became Tropical Storm Isaias on July 30th, further strengthening to a hurricane on the 31st. After crossing the Bahamas, it weakened to a tropical storm. Isaias strengthened again to a hurricane as it approached the coast of North Carolina. Hurricane Isaias made landfall at Ocean Isle Beach as a strong Category 1 around 11 pm on August 3rd, with an 87 mph recorded gust. It pushed inland to Goldsboro NC, where it weakened and accelerated northward.

Rainfall was heaviest along the coast of Georgetown County, topping out at nearly seven inches. Most areas along the coast of South Carolina received around three to four inches on average, with lesser amounts inland.

Began near Sunny Side (33.5680, -79.0046).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 916391. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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