Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2021

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, May 2021

58 severe thunderstorm warnings in May 2021. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings: 58
Busiest day: May 3, 202127 severe thunderstorm warnings

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By day

Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 1:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville	49 min
May 3, 3:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenwood, Laurens	34 min
May 3, 3:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Newberry, Saluda	51 min
May 3, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington, Saluda	32 min
May 3, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenwood	32 min
May 3, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Newberry	43 min
May 3, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	McCormick	39 min
May 3, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington, Richland	31 min
May 3, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Kershaw, Richland, Sumter	27 min
May 3, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington, Newberry, Richland, Saluda	40 min
May 3, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Kershaw, Lee, Sumter	26 min
May 3, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Kershaw, Lexington, Richland	23 min
May 3, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington, Richland	15 min
May 3, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lee, Sumter	34 min
May 3, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Kershaw, Lee, Richland, Sumter	31 min
May 3, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Darlington, Florence	60 min
May 3, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon, Lee, Richland, Sumter	46 min
May 3, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Florence, Williamsburg	21 min
May 3, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Allendale	55 min
May 3, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Horry, Marion	40 min
May 3, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Bamberg, Barnwell	44 min
May 3, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg	32 min
May 3, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Horry	49 min
May 3, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton, Dorchester	62 min
May 3, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Horry	32 min
May 3, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Bamberg, Orangeburg	46 min
May 3, 7:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Dorchester	65 min
May 3, 8:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston	38 min
May 3, 8:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Georgetown	43 min
May 4, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens	13 min
May 4, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington, Newberry, Richland, Saluda	45 min
May 4, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Lexington, Richland	41 min
May 4, 3:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester, York	52 min
May 4, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lancaster	36 min
May 4, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Newberry, Saluda	45 min
May 4, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley	25 min
May 4, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Newberry, Richland	59 min
May 4, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lee	53 min
May 4, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley	20 min
May 4, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Edgefield, McCormick, Saluda	53 min
May 4, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland	44 min
May 4, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lee	57 min
May 4, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Darlington, Marlboro	52 min
May 4, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Barnwell, Lexington, Orangeburg	60 min
May 4, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Darlington, Dillon, Marlboro	33 min
May 4, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Orangeburg, Richland	57 min
May 4, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon, Lee, Richland, Sumter	53 min
May 4, 6:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester	58 min
May 4, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Dillon	30 min
May 4, 6:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon	48 min
May 4, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton, Dorchester	46 min
May 4, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Florence, Williamsburg	41 min
May 4, 7:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Florence, Georgetown, Marion, Williamsburg	33 min
May 11, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon, Orangeburg	36 min
May 11, 6:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley	57 min
May 11, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley	47 min
May 28, 8:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Oconee, Pickens	51 min
May 28, 9:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Greenville, Pickens, Spartanburg	47 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.