Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Watches / 2021
Tornado Watches in South Carolina, May 2021
1 tornado watches 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 tornado watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 1
- Busiest day
- May 3, 20211 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 1:25 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Abbeville, Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chester and 18 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Abbeville County1
- Aiken County1
- Bamberg County1
- Barnwell County1
- Calhoun County1
- Chester County1
- Chesterfield County1
- Clarendon County1
- Edgefield County1
- Fairfield County1
- Greenwood County1
- Kershaw County1
- Lancaster County1
- Laurens County1
- Lee County1
- Lexington County1
- McCormick County1
- Newberry County1
- Orangeburg County1
- Richland County1
- Saluda County1
- Sumter County1
- Union County1
- York 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.