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Tornado Watches in South Carolina, 2021

10 tornado watches 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 watches reaches back to 1997.

Tornado Watches by county

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

Tornado Watches
10
Busiest month
March3 tornado watches
Busiest day
March 18, 20212 tornado watches

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, 3:27 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCAiken, Edgefield, Greenwood, McCormick, Saluda5 hr
Mar 18, 11:42 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAllendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley, Calhoun and 7 more6 hr
Mar 18, 2:08 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAbbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Chester, Edgefield, Fairfield and 10 more4 hr
Mar 26, 1:55 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAbbeville, Anderson, Oconee, Pickens3 hr
May 3, 1:25 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAbbeville, Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chester and 18 more6 hr
Jul 7, 7:25 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAllendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston and 5 more11 hr
Jul 8, 2:01 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCFlorence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg7 hr
Aug 17, 10:42 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAbbeville, Aiken, Anderson, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun and 18 more8 hr
Aug 17, 6:28 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCCherokee, Chester, Fairfield, Greenville, Greenwood, Kershaw and 9 more10 hr
Dec 29, 10:16 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Greenville, Oconee, Pickens7 hr

By county

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

3 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

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.