Savannah National Wildlife Refuge Tornado - July 10, 2025

Tornado Details

Start Time	Max EF-Scale Rating	Max Wind Speed	Max Path Width	Path Length	Fatalities	Injuries
EF0 Tornado within the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge (Jasper County, SC)
5:14 PM EDT	EF0	65 mph	60 yards	0.64 mi	0	0
A weak, short-lived tornado briefly touched down in the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, in southern Jasper County, SC. The tornado initiated just east of Plantation Island Trail, where it snapped some small tree limbs and tops of some trees. It moved toward the north-northwest, snapping more small tree limbs, before crossing Laurel Hill Wildlife Drive, ending just south of South Carolina State Road 170.

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Savannah National Wildlife Refuge Tornado - July 10, 2025

Above: Four-panel radar display from July 10, 2025 from 5:01 PM until 5:20 PM. The top-left is base reflectivity, top-right is storm relative velocity, bottom-left is correlation coefficient , and bottom-right is probabilistic tornadic debris signature (PTDS). The tornado started at the yellow square and ended at the red plus icon. The four-panel radar image from 21:14 UTC (5:14 PM EDT) is particularly significant. As the tornado tracked from the yellow square to the red plus icon, the correlation coefficient plummeted and the new Probabilistic Tornadic Debris Signature (PTDS) spiked to 95%, confirming tornadic debris.

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Just a small recap of the “marginal risk” we encountered in Savannah, #Georgia, Jasper & Hardeeville #SouthCarolina on Thursday afternoon. This just shows to treat every marginal risk seriously because we had severe thunderstorm warnings & tornado warnings that led to a wall… pic.twitter.com/noynL3wZYL — Michael (@StormRider912) July 11, 2025

Savannah National Wildlife Refuge Tornado - July 10, 2025

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