An extremely rare December series of tornado outbreaks continued for almost 19 days straight, from December 9th at around 3:20 AM Eastern to December 27th, nearing midnight for the 28th. This outbreak sequence of at least 6 different tornado outbreaks produced a record-shattering 359 tornadoes, including the sole EF5 of the entire year, and the fourteenth tornado in the Clover, SC area since {fictional by me} reliable records began in 1950. Surprisingly, despite all of this, about 91% of these tornadoes were below EF2, with only one tornado out of 327 below EF2 ranking killing any number of people at any time. Multiple towns throughout the southeastern states in general sustained significant damage, with a few populated areas sustaining substantial damage from these tornadoes. Thirty-three people were killed by these outbreaks, with a staggering 77 tornadoes and thirteen of these deaths solely on December 21st, with fifty the next day but, despite that high number, only one death on the 22nd. An additional 40 tornadoes and six deaths on Christmas Day, with a combined staggering 1,759 injures--nearly half of the entire year's total of just over 3,550. 75% of those injuries came from a deadly EF2 in Myrtle Beach that killed 4 people and left 1,300 people injured due to the entire area having no sirens at all. That tornado was known as the "Myrtle Killer of 2013" by some, and was nicknamed as "one of the worst tornadoes to ever hit the Carolinas in its entire history of tornadoes", more than likely solely due to large amount of injuries and nearly $1 billion in damage done from it.
Tornadoes[]
Out of all 359 tornadoes and at least nine states affected by them, South Carolina and Georgia tie for the highest tornado counts at 94 tornadoes each--a record high for both states in a single day, and over 5 times the average of tornadoes in South Carolina yearly.
| Confirmed Total |
Confirmed EF0 |
Confirmed EF1 |
Confirmed EF2 |
Confirmed EF3 |
Confirmed EF4 |
Confirmed EF5 |
| 359* | 233 | 94 | 16 | 13 | 2 | 1 |
- All tornadoes were counted. Out of all tornadoes confirmed, 27 were confirmed to be not in significant outbreaks in the list.
List of Outbreaks[]
Note: None of these articles were created just yet, so just bear with me here.
December 9th-11th[]
| EFU | EF0 | EF1 | EF2 | EF3 | EF4 | EF5 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 33 | |
| Deaths: 4 | Injuries: 38 | |||||||
December 12th-15th[]
| EFU | EF0 | EF1 | EF2 | EF3 | EF4 | EF5 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | |
| Deaths: 4 | Injuries: 1,377+ | |||||||
December 14th Tornadoes[]
| EFU | EF0 | EF1 | EF2 | EF3 | EF4 | EF5 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Deaths: 4 | Injuries: 1,316+ | |||||||
December 17th[]
| EFU | EF0 | EF1 | EF2 | EF3 | EF4 | EF5 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 43 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 47 | |
| Deaths: 2 | Injuries: 91 | |||||||
December 19th[]
| EFU | EF0 | EF1 | EF2 | EF3 | EF4 | EF5 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 49 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 73 | |
| Deaths: 6 | Injuries: 27 | |||||||
December 21st-22nd[]
| EFU | EF0 | EF1 | EF2 | EF3 | EF4 | EF5 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 101 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 127 | |
| Deaths: 28 | Injuries: 186 | |||||||
Christmas Eve-Boxing Day 2013 Tornado Outbreak[]
| EFU | EF0 | EF1 | EF2 | EF3 | EF4 | EF5 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 9 | 46 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 59 | |
| Deaths: 3 | Injuries: 40 | |||||||
Note: Sequence page is about halfway complete, but the outbreaks weren't started, so this page is, in reality, less than 8% done.