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The National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Forecast Office in Columbia, SC will be conducting a required, scheduled update to their Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) from Monday May 5, 2025 through approximately Wednesday May 7, 2025. During the time of the update, forecast operations will be conducted by our service back-up office in Greenville-Spartanburg, SC to minimize ... Read More >

The National Weather Service in Columbia confirmed that an EF1 tornado touched down at Ft.Jackson in South Carolina on March 3rd, 2019.

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Fort Jackson personnel surveyed damage on the base and provided the National Weather Service with detailed damage photos which are consistent with a tornado. The tornado uprooted and snapped multiple pine trees in the vicinity of Park Road near Gills Creek. The tornado touched down about half a mile southeast of the intersection of Percival Road and Alpine Road. The tornado path length was approximately 0.6 miles with a width of about 200 yards.

Statistics Summary of the EF-1 Tornado at Ft.Jackson in SC on March 3rd, 2019