Tornado, Florence
- When
- June 10, 10:45 AM EST to 10:55 AM EST
- Where
- Florence County, Lake City to 5 mi SE of Lake City
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- UTILITY COMPANY
- Coordinates
- 33.820, -79.680
Tornado in South Carolina, June 10, 1998
Tornado did spotty damage as it passed through woods, crossed SC341, and crossed the county line. Power lines were downed, as reported by Santee Cooper Electric.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- 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 ILM wrote it up.
Tornado did spotty damage as it passed through woods, crossed SC341, and crossed the county line. Power lines were downed, as reported by Santee Cooper Electric.
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 117 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:46 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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in North Dakota, June 10 to 27, 1998
- Hail in Nebraska, June 10, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Hail in North Carolina, June 10, 1998
- Tornado in South Carolina, June 10, 1998
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 10, 1998
- Hail in Kansas, June 10, 1998
- Tornado in Kentucky, June 10, 1998
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 10, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Virginia, June 10, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 10 to 11, 1998
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 10, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Virginia, June 10, 1998
More
Every storm in South Carolina in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for South Carolina, 1998Warnings in South Carolina, June 1998
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5655939.