EF0 tornado in Laurens County, South Carolina

Tornado March 25, 2021 · Laurens County, South Carolina

EF0

Rating

2.1 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 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

NWS storm survey found the path of a weak tornado along Highway 72 in extreme eastern Laurens County. Damage was limited to multiple trees uprooted or snapped in this very rural area.

The wider storm

Multiple supercell thunderstorms developed in the vicinity of a warm front across the South Carolina Piedmont throughout the afternoon. Despite exhibiting intense rotation at times, severe weather from these storms was limited to one brief, weak tornado, isolated large hail, and straight line wind gusts as high as 85 mph.

Began near Renno (34.5060, -81.7230).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 951902. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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