Brad Nettles/StaffKevin Gill and Arlene Jobe took refuge in theirTurners Express Road bathroom in Hampton County when a tornado hit the area Monday morning April 13, 2020. Lauren Petracca/StaffKevin Hamner uses a chainsaw to cut a tree in a friend's yard in the Fairlawn subdivision near Moncks Corner where a tornado hit on Monday, April 13, 2020. The trail was long and devastating.”Other tornado emergencies were issued in Monroe, La., early Sunday.
Lauren Petracca/StaffA family rides down Dennis Boulevard in the Fairlawn subdivision near Moncks Corner as they assess damage after a tornado hit on Monday, April 13, 2020. Chance of rain 50%..Scattered thunderstorms this evening becoming more widespread overnight. In addition, the tornado, which reached a maximum width of about 0.75 mile, caused extensive damage to trees and powerlines along its path, which stretched more than 24 miles from southwest of Estill, to near the Colleton County line. Bart Boatwright/Special to The Post and CourierA door is wrapped around a guard rail on Semper Fi Dr. behind the BorgWarner plant in Seneca Monday, April 13, 2020 after a tornado hit struck the area in the early morning hours.
Around the same time, a second supercell storm formed behind the first, narrowly missing Bassfield with a second large, violent tornado — prompting a new tornado emergency.Both tornadoes lofted debris to more than 20,000 feet simultaneously as the lead storm ravaged Soso and the second narrowly missed already hard-hit Bassfield to the north. "He did not have a precise number of tornadoes that swept across South Carolina, but National Weather Service offices confirmed six tornadoes so far. "A likely tornado caused significant damage to the Walterboro area in Colleton County this morning. Bart Boatwright/Special to The Post and CourierDamage to buildings near the BorgWarner plant in Seneca Monday, April 13, 2020 after a tornado hit the plant in the early morning hours. That is about a mile from the airport.As of about 4 a.m. Tuesday, there were still tree limbs and debris in yards and roads on Wichman Street and Hampton Street. Previously, Mikaela reported on breaking news, local government, school issues and community happenings for The Hartford Courant in Hartford, Conn. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device.
Bart Boatwright/Special to The Post and CourierDamage to buildings near the BorgWarner plant in Seneca Monday, April 13, 2020 after a tornado hit the plant in the early morning hours. “Winds topped 200 MPH. I grew up here," says Robbie Mixson as he looks for something in his mother's bedroom in the Fairlawn subdivision near Moncks Corner on Monday, April 13, 2020. Walterboro, S.C., also found itself beneath a rare tornado emergency around sunrise Monday morning, as a “large, extremely dangerous, and potentially deadly tornado” impacted the area. Lauren Petracca/StaffAs South Carolina deals with a pandemic that led to unprecedented steps to stop the spread of the coronavirus, the state was struck by an estimated nine confirmed and suspected tornadoes early Monday morning that killed nine people in small towns from the Upstate to the Lowcountry.Five people died in rural Hampton County, 60 miles northwest of Hilton Head Island, S.C. Brad Nettles/StaffKevin Gill and Arlene Jobe took refuge in theirTurners Express Road bathroom in Hampton County when a tornado hit the area Monday morning April 13, 2020. Three of the dead were a family that lived in Nixville, a small community just east of Estill.On the opposite side of South Carolina, a 77-year-old security guard died at the BorgWarner auto-parts manufacturing plant near Seneca, the hometown of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham.
Bart Boatwright/Special to The Post and CourierThe remains of the guard shack at the BorgWarner plant in Seneca, where a security guard was killed Monday, April 13, 2020, when a tornado hit the plant in the early morning hours. Her birthday is in October.Ginn said she’s never experienced anything like the tornado that sliced through her family’s corner.
"It looks like this tornado jumped up and down where it traveled through, so you see some areas where there's devastation and others that can be rebuilt.
“But we'll get through it. Bart Boatwright/Special to The Post and CourierDamage to buildings near the BorgWarner plant in Seneca Monday, April 13, 2020 after a tornado hit the plant in the early morning hours. Bart Boatwright/Special to The Post and CourierThe remains of the guard shack at the BorgWarner plant in Seneca, where a security guard was killed Monday, April 13, 2020, when a tornado hit the plant in the early morning hours.