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Tornado Warnings in South Carolina, 2021

67 tornado warnings in 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

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

Tornado Warnings
67
Busiest month
August30 tornado warnings
Busiest day
August 17, 202128 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 1, 5:28 PM ESTTornado WarningCAEEdgefield, McCormick32 min
Mar 18, 2:37 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCherokee, Spartanburg23 min
Mar 18, 2:55 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSJasper21 min
Mar 18, 4:38 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPYork37 min
Mar 25, 2:40 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPGreenville, Pickens, Spartanburg50 min
Mar 25, 3:27 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAbbeville, Anderson, Greenville48 min
Mar 25, 4:01 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCherokee, Spartanburg44 min
Mar 25, 4:14 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAbbeville, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, Union46 min
Mar 25, 4:54 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEFairfield, Newberry36 min
Mar 25, 4:54 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPChester, Laurens, Union51 min
Mar 31, 5:44 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEAiken, Lexington20 min
Apr 10, 6:37 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPSpartanburg23 min
Apr 10, 6:58 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPSpartanburg32 min
May 3, 12:38 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCherokee, York37 min
May 3, 1:34 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAbbeville41 min
May 3, 2:09 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatGSPAbbeville, Greenwood51 min
May 3, 2:22 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAbbeville38 min
May 3, 2:43 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAbbeville18 min
May 3, 2:49 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatGSPGreenwood, Laurens41 min
May 3, 2:59 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAbbeville, Greenwood26 min
May 3, 3:05 PM EDTTornado WarningCAENewberry40 min
May 3, 3:39 PM EDTTornado WarningCAELexington21 min
Jun 3, 7:47 PM EDTTornado WarningILMDillon, Marion28 min
Jun 20, 2:25 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEAiken, Lexington, Saluda35 min
Jul 7, 11:39 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSBeaufort, Jasper36 min
Jul 8, 12:23 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSBeaufort, Colleton37 min
Jul 8, 12:59 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSCharleston31 min
Jul 8, 1:36 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSCharleston24 min
Jul 8, 2:23 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSCharleston37 min
Jul 8, 2:49 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSBerkeley, Charleston26 min
Jul 8, 3:08 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSBerkeley39 min
Jul 8, 3:16 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSBerkeley, Charleston14 min
Jul 8, 4:16 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSBerkeley, Charleston44 min
Jul 8, 4:31 AM EDTTornado WarningILMGeorgetown, Williamsburg29 min
Jul 8, 5:25 AM EDTTornado WarningILMGeorgetown, Horry22 min
Jul 8, 6:21 AM EDTTornado WarningILMDillon24 min
Jul 8, 7:46 AM EDTTornado WarningILMGeorgetown, Horry29 min
Aug 17, 11:47 AM EDTTornado WarningGSPOconee13 min
Aug 17, 12:30 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPOconee, Pickens23 min
Aug 17, 12:59 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEEdgefield46 min
Aug 17, 12:59 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAnderson, Pickens23 min
Aug 17, 1:20 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPPickens25 min
Aug 17, 1:44 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEEdgefield, McCormick, Saluda17 min
Aug 17, 1:55 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEAiken, Edgefield, Lexington, Saluda50 min
Aug 17, 2:08 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEAiken37 min
Aug 17, 2:14 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPGreenwood, Laurens33 min
Aug 17, 2:31 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEBarnwell44 min
Aug 17, 2:52 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPGreenville26 min
Aug 17, 3:01 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGSPGreenville18 min
Aug 17, 3:12 PM EDTTornado WarningCAELexington, Saluda48 min
Aug 17, 3:48 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEFairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland42 min
Aug 17, 4:56 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEOrangeburg34 min
Aug 17, 5:08 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAnderson, Greenville, Pickens52 min
Aug 17, 5:10 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAbbeville, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens50 min
Aug 17, 5:11 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAbbeville, Greenwood, Laurens49 min
Aug 17, 5:29 PM EDTTornado WarningCAECalhoun, Orangeburg46 min
Aug 17, 5:33 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAnderson, Greenville, Spartanburg42 min
Aug 17, 5:37 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPChester, York38 min
Aug 17, 5:57 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPGreenville, Laurens, Spartanburg48 min
Aug 17, 5:58 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPGreenwood, Laurens47 min
Aug 17, 6:15 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPLaurens, Spartanburg, Union45 min
Aug 17, 6:42 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPSpartanburg48 min
Aug 17, 6:46 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCherokee, Spartanburg44 min
Aug 17, 6:51 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPLaurens, Spartanburg, Union39 min
Aug 17, 7:59 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCherokee, Spartanburg46 min
Aug 17, 8:00 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCherokee, Spartanburg, Union, York45 min
Aug 17, 8:43 PM EDTTornado WarningCAELexington, Saluda32 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. August 17, 202128tornado warnings
  2. July 8, 202113tornado warnings
  3. May 3, 20219tornado warnings
  4. March 25, 20216tornado warnings
  5. March 18, 20213tornado warnings
  6. April 10, 20212tornado warnings
  7. August 18, 20212tornado warnings
  8. January 1, 20211tornado warnings
  9. March 31, 20211tornado warnings
  10. June 3, 20211tornado warnings
  11. June 20, 20211tornado 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. Rebuilt daily.