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Tornado (EF3) — Sumter, South Carolina
April 15, 2007 · NOAA Storm Events record
Direct deaths
1
Direct injuries
5
Property damage
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Tornado scale
EF3
Area
Sumter
Event narrative (NOAA)
An EF3 tornado traveled from southwest to northeast of Sumter destroying a seven mobile homes, severely damaging nine framed homes, and doing light to moderate damage to an additional 62 mobile and framed homes. There was 1 fatality and 3 injuries. The tornado touched down as an EF1 and ended as an EF3 where the fatality occurred at a mobile home on hwy 76.
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.