Tornado, Charleston
- When
- March 14, 5:15 AM EST to 5:20 AM EST
- Where
- Charleston County, Awendaw
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $75,000
- Coordinates
- 33.030, -79.620
Tornado in South Carolina, March 14, 1997
TORNADO CAUSED MODERATE DAMAGE TO A HOME AND MINOR DAMAGE TO TWO TRAILERS.
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
- 0
- Property damage
- $75,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS CHS wrote it up.
TORNADO CAUSED MODERATE DAMAGE TO A HOME AND MINOR DAMAGE TO TWO TRAILERS.
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 139 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:16 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Winter Storm in New York, March 14, 1997
- Winter Storm in Vermont, March 14, 1997
- Winter Storm in New York, March 14, 1997
- Winter Storm in New York, March 14, 1997
- Storm Surge in Pennsylvania, March 14 to 15, 1997
- Tornado in South Carolina, March 14, 1997
- Flooding in Michigan, March 14, 1997
- Flooding in Indiana, March 14, 1997
- Ice Storm in Pennsylvania, March 14, 1997
- Ice Storm in Michigan, March 14, 1997
- Ice Storm in Pennsylvania, March 14, 1997
- Winter Storm in Vermont, March 14, 1997
More
Every storm in South Carolina in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for South Carolina, 1997Warnings in South Carolina, March 1997
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: 5589027.