South Carolina

Storms in South Carolina in 1980

41 events in 23 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in South Carolina in 1980, 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 1980 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
41
Deaths
0
Injuries
45
Damage
$11 million
Episodes
23

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 Wind2900
Tornado11045$11 million
Hail100

Every episode, month by month

March 1980

April 1980

May 1980

June 1980

July 1980

August 1980

September 1980

More

Every year in South CarolinaEvery state in 1980Tornadoes in South Carolina in 198019791981

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.