EF0 tornado — Horry County, South Carolina

EF0 tornado in Horry County, South Carolina

Tornado October 11, 2020 · Horry County, South Carolina

EF0

Rating

2.3 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

$20K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 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

The tornado formed near Amber Ln and Wedding Ln causing widely

scattered damage to large tree limbs and knocking out a sign on

Hwy 501. The tornado likely skipped toward the northeast causing

some tree limbs to fall near Ridgefield Circle. The tornado then

caused damage primarily to trees from Naples Dr, Athens Dr, and

the north end of Bridgewater Dr. before moving northeast across

Steritt Swamp. The tornado uprooted a few trees along Lee's

Landing Circle, then likely dissipated in the swamp south of Cotton

Circle.

The wider storm

The remnants of tropical system Delta spawned several tornadoes and strong thunderstorms.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 926209. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Horry County, South Carolina

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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