Hurricane Nate Updates: Tropical Storm Brings Tornadoes In The Upstate
Hurricane Nate prowled through several areas in the Upstate since Sunday after showing its rage in Central America on Friday, but the damages brought by the weather disturbance were just recorded by the National Weather Service team.
According to a report from the WYFF News 4, the weather agents discovered a tornado with a maximum speed wind of 75 mph in an area located three miles west-southeast of Buffalo Township in Union County, Pennsylvania. The tornado was also mentioned to have an EF0 scale.
The report also revealed that another tornado with a faster maximum wind speed of 115 to 120 mph and an EF2 scale was also spotted moving from Laurens County's Cross Hill up to Glenn Springs in Spartanburg County. Pickens County also had its own EF2 tornado that had a 130 mph winds.
All the tornadoes caused by the aftereffects of Hurricane Nate brought a lot of major damages in several counties across the Upstate.
As of 11 a.m. EDT on Monday, Oct. 9, the National Hurricane Center declared that Nate had been downgraded to a tropical storm. It has maximum sustained winds of 30 mph and was expected to move towards the direction of the northeastward towards the lower Great Lakes Region. It is also expected to further weaken as it moves towards the Northeastern parts of the US, but it can still bring about one to two inches of rain in the northern part of New York up to the northern areas of New England.
Before Nate landed in the US, the tropical storm swept through several areas in Central America, particularly in Costa Rica where at least 11 people die and two others were declared missing. Nicaragua also had 16 fatalities and lost one person during the hurricane's wake.
While there were no reported fatalities in the US, it reportedly caused a massive destruction in the country that reached as much as $2.5 billion when it made a landfall as a Category 1 hurricane in the areas near Biloxi, Mississippi.
