South Carolina

Storms in South Carolina in 1957

28 events in 14 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in South Carolina in 1957, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1996 the record holds tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, without narratives; floods, heat, winter storms and the other kinds begin in 1996.

South Carolina in 1957 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over South Carolina

The year

Events
28
Deaths
0
Injuries
19
Damage
$1.1 million
Episodes
14

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Thunderstorm Wind1500
Tornado9019$1.1 million
Hail400

Every episode, month by month

March 1957

April 1957

May 1957

June 1957

July 1957

August 1957

September 1957

November 1957

More

Every year in South CarolinaEvery state in 1957Tornadoes in South Carolina in 195719561958

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.