The National Weather Service now says Wednesday's onslaught of wild weather in Pickens County included two tornadoes, one of them packing hundred-mile-an-hour winds.
The second whirlwind spinning up around 9:30 in the Six Mile area Wednesday night was an EF-zero, but that packs a seventy mile an hour punch. Fortunately it caused no injuries during it's touchdown.
Weather Service specialists tracked its twenty-yeard-wide path at just over a tenth of a mile. But the one that damaged a dozen houses and flipped a couple of mobile homes was a EF-2 , with 115 mile an hour windspeeeds, that raked a path six miles long from where it touched down near Duncan Road Northeast to the Crystal Lane and Lost Vally Road area.
The same area made national news back in 1929 when a tornado destroyed a cotton mill, a church, two schools and several homes, killing seven people including the Pickens County sheriff, his wife and their two chuldren.
Several people were treated for minor injuries Wednesday
