Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Watches / 2021
Tornado Watches in South Carolina, August 2021
2 tornado watches in August 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 August 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- August 17, 20212 tornado watches
Over time
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 10:42 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Abbeville, Aiken, Anderson, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun and 18 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 17, 6:28 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Chester, Fairfield, Greenville, Greenwood, Kershaw and 9 more | 10 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cherokee County2
- Chester County2
- Fairfield County2
- Greenville County2
- Greenwood County2
- Laurens County2
- Lexington County2
- Newberry County2
- Richland County2
- Saluda County2
- Spartanburg County2
- Union County2
- York County2
- Abbeville County1
- Aiken County1
- Anderson County1
- Bamberg County1
- Barnwell County1
- Calhoun County1
- Edgefield County1
- McCormick County1
- Oconee County1
- Orangeburg County1
- Pickens County1
- Kershaw County1
- Lancaster County1
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.