Tornado, Dorchester
- When
- April 22, 11:50 PM EST to 11:55 PM EST
- Where
- Dorchester County, 1 mi W of St George
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Property damage
- $30,000
- Crop damage
- $1,000
- Coordinates
- 33.180, -80.580
Tornado in South Carolina, April 22, 1997
ROOF PARTIALLY TAKEN OFF TRAILER AND SEVERAL TREES UPROOTED.
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
- 0
- Property damage
- $30,000
- Crop damage
- $1,000
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS CHS wrote it up.
ROOF PARTIALLY TAKEN OFF TRAILER AND SEVERAL TREES UPROOTED.
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 73 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:50 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Alabama, April 22, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, April 22, 1997
- Tornadoes in Georgia, April 22, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, April 22, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Texas, April 22, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, April 22, 1997
- Tornado in Georgia, April 22, 1997
- Hail in Louisiana, April 22, 1997
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, April 22, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Texas, April 22, 1997
- Tornado and Hail in South Carolina, April 22, 1997
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Alabama, April 22, 1997
More
Every storm in South Carolina in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for South Carolina, 1997Warnings in South Carolina, April 1997
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5594857.