South Carolina

Storms in South Carolina in 1982

78 events in 32 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in South Carolina in 1982, 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 1982 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
78
Deaths
0
Injuries
16
Damage
$5.3 million
Episodes
32

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 Wind4400
Hail2500
Tornado9016$5.3 million

Every episode, month by month

January 1982

February 1982

March 1982

April 1982

May 1982

June 1982

July 1982

August 1982

October 1982

November 1982

December 1982

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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.