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Tornado Warnings in South Carolina, 1996

33 tornado warnings in 1996. 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1996. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
33
Busiest month
May12 tornado warnings
Busiest day
September 16, 19968 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 2, 6:11 PM ESTTornado WarningCAEAiken34 min
Jan 2, 6:22 PM ESTTornado WarningCAEBarnwell53 min
Jan 2, 7:03 PM ESTTornado WarningCAEOrangeburg42 min
Mar 7, 12:17 PM ESTTornado WarningCAEClarendon28 min
Mar 16, 3:08 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPLaurens37 min
Mar 16, 3:18 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPUnion42 min
Mar 16, 10:13 PM ESTTornado WarningCAEFairfield, Kershaw47 min
Mar 16, 10:47 PM ESTTornado WarningCAELee43 min
Mar 16, 11:09 PM ESTTornado WarningILMDarlington36 min
May 7, 7:14 PM EDTTornado WarningCAESaluda31 min
May 7, 7:23 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEAiken37 min
May 7, 8:03 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEEdgefield42 min
May 29, 4:35 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCherokee40 min
May 29, 5:04 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPChester, York56 min
May 29, 5:20 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPUnion40 min
May 29, 5:55 PM EDTTornado WarningCAELancaster45 min
May 29, 6:00 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPChester45 min
May 29, 7:23 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPChester37 min
May 29, 7:26 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEKershaw, Lee49 min
May 29, 9:02 PM EDTTornado WarningILMFlorence33 min
May 29, 9:13 PM EDTTornado WarningILMMarion47 min
Jul 10, 6:53 PM EDTTornado WarningILMHorry32 min
Jul 26, 5:25 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPUnion50 min
Sep 16, 4:31 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAnderson, Oconee44 min
Sep 16, 5:03 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPGreenville42 min
Sep 16, 5:23 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPLaurens, Spartanburg37 min
Sep 16, 5:57 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPGreenwood, Laurens48 min
Sep 16, 6:03 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPUnion42 min
Sep 16, 6:41 PM EDTTornado WarningILMFlorence49 min
Sep 16, 7:02 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPGreenwood43 min
Sep 16, 7:15 PM EDTTornado WarningILMDillon, Marion45 min
Oct 8, 5:33 AM EDTTornado WarningILMHorry27 min
Oct 8, 5:45 AM EDTTornado WarningILMHorry40 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. September 16, 19968tornado warnings
  2. May 29, 19967tornado warnings
  3. March 17, 19963tornado warnings
  4. January 2, 19962tornado warnings
  5. March 16, 19962tornado warnings
  6. May 7, 19962tornado warnings
  7. May 30, 19962tornado warnings
  8. October 8, 19962tornado warnings
  9. January 3, 19961tornado warnings
  10. March 7, 19961tornado warnings
  11. May 8, 19961tornado warnings
  12. July 10, 19961tornado warnings

Nearby

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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.