Alert archive / South Carolina

Weather alerts in Hampton County, South Carolina

3,072 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Hampton County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
3,072
Warnings
894
Watches
456
Advisories
690
Busiest year
2011205 alerts
Average year
81over 38 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 50% of tornado reports in Hampton County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 23 minutes before, and 79% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20087186%1100%51 min
200910100%0
201030100%0
201120100%0
20172150%1100%2 min
201810100%0
201910100%0
20204325%1100%16 min
20222150%30%
202320100%0
202430100%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008652857%1963%27 min
2009321650%475%14 min
2010452936%989%24 min
2011634824%2190%28 min
2012402635%2181%31 min
2013221532%15100%35 min
2014211624%1060%17 min
2015292224%1968%25 min
2016282221%12100%29 min
2017161225%1292%14 min
2018141121%1377%24 min
2019271833%2492%22 min
2020141121%1164%28 min
20213233%30%
2022261542%2685%24 min
2023231822%2264%17 min
2024121017%0
2025231057%888%13 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2012110%0
20133233%967%96 min
2015110%0
2016220%560%70 min
201720100%0
20234250%250%118 min
2024330%1100%348 min
202510100%0

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 6, 9:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHS60 min
Sep 6, 7:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHS67 min
Aug 27, 6:22 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCHS2 hr
Aug 21, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHS55 min
Aug 20, 8:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHS48 min
Aug 13, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHS62 min
Aug 13, 4:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHS66 min
Jul 24, 7:36 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCHS3 hr
Jul 24, 6:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHS48 min
Jul 5, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHS33 min
Jul 5, 1:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHS25 min
Jun 18, 4:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHS49 min

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.