GEORGETOWN CO, SC – The National Weather Service storm survey crews found EF-1 damage near Sampit.

This tornado started south of Saints-Delight Rd, according to the NWS. It crossed Powell Rd. near Anna Dr. causing damage to power lines and trees. It then moved across a swampy area south of Sampit and crossed Hwy 17 Alt/Hwy 521 causing damage to an auto-repair shop, two railroad gates, and a small office. The tornado moved across the Sollie Rd. area and caused damage to trees and some mobile homes, and crossed a field between Sollie Cir. and Goings St.

An EF-2 tornado also was confirmed by the NWS near Litchfield beach on Lakeshore Drive and Trace Drive. 

This tornado started at North Litchfield Beach as an EF-0 near Boyle Dr. and Cayman Loop, knocking down large limbs, according to the NWS. There were large trees uprooted in the woods on the north side of Trace Dr. It then caused minor damage in Huntington State Park. The tornado moved along the beach and moved off-shore near Murrells Inlet, where it was an EF-2 with a 114 mph wind gust.

A third tornado, an EF-1, was confirmed in Graves in the area of Pennyroyal Road and Rowan Drive, where it crossed Highway 17 Alt/Highway 521, causing tree damage on both sides of the road. This tornado caused damage near Garrison Rd. where several trees were uprooted, the NWS said. A home was slightly damaged, along with a carport and a couple cars. A mobile home near Gapway Rd. was damaged along with power lines. A small section along Brick Chimney Rd was affected. Some large limbs and trees were downed near Brown’s Ferry Rd. and Dana Ln.

In the Lowcountry, a grandmother was killed in Colleton County after a tree crashed through a home as storms rolled through the area around 7:00 a.m.

Colleton County Fire-Rescue Chief Barry McRoy said three people – a grandmother, grandfather and a young child – were inside a home on Barracada Road around 7:00 a.m. when storms rolled through the county.

McRoy said the grandfather gathered to grandmother and the young child and took them into a back room of the home when alerts went off shortly after 7:00 a.m.

Once they got to the room, McRoy said a large tree came crashing through the roof of the home. 

He said the grandmother was killed and the grandfathered suffered broken bones after the tree fell on him. McRoy said the child suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

In other areas, the NWS says there were two tornado paths in Marlboro County. According to News13 meteorologists, the NWS didn’t issue a tornado warning for this area.

Also in Marlboro County, the NWS reports damage near Old Wire Road and Step Road in the Wallace area. “Trees down and mobile home flipped over in Wallace,” the NWS says. “Two swaths of damage reported – one near SC-177 and the other opposite side of Wallace School.”

The NWS further reports “multiple homes damaged on Hwy 177 and Grantsmille Rd” in the Wallace area. The NWS reports “minor damage to several mobile homes at the Marlowe Mobile Home Park” near Society Hill Road and Round Road in Darlington County.

Storms killed at least 30 people in the U.S. Southeast, piling fresh misery atop a pandemic, spread across the eastern United States on Monday, leaving more than 1 million homes and businesses without power amid floods and mudslides.

Nine died in South Carolina, Gov. Gov. Henry McMaster said, and eight were killed in Georgia.