South Carolina

Storms in South Carolina in 1958

12 events in 5 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in South Carolina in 1958, 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 1958 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
12
Deaths
1
Injuries
2
Damage
$55,000
Episodes
5

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 Wind500
Tornado512$55,000
Hail200

Every episode, month by month

April 1958

May 1958

June 1958

More

Every year in South CarolinaEvery state in 1958Tornadoes in South Carolina in 195819571959

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.