Tornado, Oconee
- When
- February 10, 6:20 AM EST
- Where
- Oconee County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 60 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 34.730, -82.900
Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, February 10, 1990
8 thunderstorm wind, 6 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- Property damage
- $1.3 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 14
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
8 thunderstorm wind, 6 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Pickens
- When
- February 10, 6:22 AM EST
- Where
- Pickens County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 60 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 34.750, -82.880
Thunderstorm Wind, Abbeville
- When
- February 10, 6:30 AM CST
- Where
- Abbeville County
- Coordinates
- 34.180, -82.420
Thunderstorm Wind, Pickens
- When
- February 10, 6:35 AM CST
- Where
- Pickens County
- Coordinates
- 34.880, -82.780
Thunderstorm Wind, Anderson
- When
- February 10, 6:40 AM CST
- Where
- Anderson County
- Coordinates
- 34.700, -82.720
Tornado, Pickens
- When
- February 10, 6:55 AM CST
- Where
- Pickens County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 34.830, -82.600
Tornado, Greenville
- When
- February 10, 7:00 AM CST
- Where
- Greenville County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 80 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 34.850, -82.400
Thunderstorm Wind, Greenwood
- When
- February 10, 7:22 AM CST
- Where
- Greenwood County
- Coordinates
- 34.180, -82.170
Thunderstorm Wind, Greenville
- When
- February 10, 7:25 AM CST
- Where
- Greenville County
- Coordinates
- 35.070, -82.230
Thunderstorm Wind, Edgefield
- When
- February 10, 7:30 AM CST
- Where
- Edgefield County
- Coordinates
- 33.800, -81.870
Thunderstorm Wind, Aiken
- When
- February 10, 7:30 AM CST
- Where
- Aiken County
- Coordinates
- 33.550, -81.720
Tornado, Spartanburg
- When
- February 10, 7:38 AM CST
- Where
- Spartanburg County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 35.120, -81.870
Tornado, Cherokee
- When
- February 10, 7:42 AM CST
- Where
- Cherokee County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 35.130, -81.830
Thunderstorm Wind, Laurens
- When
- February 10, 7:45 AM CST
- Where
- Laurens County
- Coordinates
- 34.520, -82.030
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10109988, 10109989, 10109990, 10109991, 10109992, 10109993, 10109994, 10109995, 10109996, 10109997, 10109998, 10109999, 10110000, 10110001.