South Carolina, 2022Tornado in South Carolina, May 26, 2022
May 26, 2022 · NWS CHS · 1 event in 1 county or zone
A line of isolated thunderstorms developed just south of a nearby warm front just before sunrise. In the presence of sufficient shear and instability, one thunderstorm produced a short-lived tornado that produced minor damage in Colleton County.
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- 0
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- None recorded
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A line of isolated thunderstorms developed just south of a nearby warm front just before sunrise. In the presence of sufficient shear and instability, one thunderstorm produced a short-lived tornado that produced minor damage in Colleton County.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 26, 2:40 AM EST, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:40 AM EST, 3 hours 35 minutes before
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</html>Tornado, Colleton
- When
- May 26, 6:15 AM EST to 6:17 AM EST
- Where
- Colleton County, 2.64 mi WSW of Ritter to 2.55 mi W of Ritter
- Rating
- EF0
- Path length
- 0.69 mi
- Path width
- 75 yd
- Reported by
- NWS Storm Survey
- Coordinates
- 32.770, -80.674
A National Weather Service storm survey team confirmed an EF-0 tornado in Colleton County near Ritter. A weak, small, and short-lived tornado touched down just south of Ritter Road. The tornado moved northward crossing near a residence, where it destroyed a child's wooden playhouse and uprooted several pine trees. The small tornado moved a few hundred yards northward before dissipating in a heavily wooded area.
- 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.
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