Tornado, Charleston
- When
- August 29, 12:06 AM CST
- Where
- Charleston County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 67 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 32.800, -79.900
Tornadoes in South Carolina, August 29, 1964
6 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 3
- Property damage
- $260,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 6
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.
Event by event
6 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Berkeley
- When
- August 29, 3:40 AM CST
- Where
- Berkeley County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 67 yd
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 33.200, -79.780
Tornado, Richland
- When
- August 29, 3:15 PM CST
- Where
- Richland County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 67 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 34.130, -81.200
Tornado, Kershaw
- When
- August 29, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Kershaw County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 27 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 34.370, -80.450
Tornado, Darlington
- When
- August 29, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Darlington County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 13 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 34.300, -79.870
Tornado, Florence
- When
- August 29, 10:59 PM CST
- Where
- Florence County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 34.120, -79.930
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, August 29, 1964
- Tornadoes in North Carolina, August 29, 1964
- Tornadoes in North Dakota, August 29, 1964
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 29, 1964
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 29, 1964
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, August 29, 1964
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, August 29, 1964
More
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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. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10110551, 10110552, 10110553, 10110554, 10110555, 10110556.