South Carolina

Storms in South Carolina in 1974

100 events in 26 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in South Carolina in 1974, 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 1974 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
100
Deaths
6
Injuries
6
Damage
$3.6 million
Episodes
26

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 Wind7000
Hail1900
Tornado1166$3.6 million

Every episode, month by month

January 1974

February 1974

March 1974

April 1974

May 1974

June 1974

July 1974

August 1974

September 1974

November 1974

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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.