Hail, Charleston
- When
- April 9, 12:10 AM EST to 12:14 AM EST
- Where
- Charleston County, North Charleston
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.880, -79.980
Tornado and Hail in South Carolina, April 9, 1998
4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- $50,000
- 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.
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 102 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:10 UTC.
Event by event
4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Berkeley
- When
- April 9, 12:20 AM EST to 12:23 AM EST
- Where
- Berkeley County, Wando
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.900, -79.820
Tornado, Jasper
- When
- April 9, 5:22 AM EST to 5:27 AM EST
- Where
- Jasper County, Hardeeville to 2 mi W of Hardeeville
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Coordinates
- 32.280, -81.120
Numerous trees uprooted or snapped off, shingles taken off of nearby roofs, and several other buildings damaged. This F1 tornado was spawned by the same supercell that produced the F3 tornado in Bryan County, Georgia that moved into western Effingham County and lifted with no further touchdown until the Hardeeville area.
Hail, Jasper
- When
- April 9, 5:25 AM EST to 5:30 AM EST
- Where
- Jasper County, 5 mi S of Ridgeland
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.420, -81.020
Funnel Cloud, Jasper
- When
- April 9, 5:25 AM EST to 5:30 AM EST
- Where
- Jasper County, 5 mi S of Ridgeland
- Coordinates
- 32.422, -81.023 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Spotter observed a funnel cloud, but no touchdown.
Hail, Beaufort
- When
- April 9, 5:42 AM EST to 5:45 AM EST
- Where
- Beaufort County, Beaufort
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.430, -80.680
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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.
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Damaging Winds in New York, April 9, 1998
- Rip Current in Alabama, April 9, 1998
- Storm Surge in Ohio, April 9 to 10, 1998
- Flooding in Michigan, April 9 to 10, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in Virginia, April 9, 1998
- Blizzard and High Wind in Alaska, April 9 to 10, 1998
- Flash Flooding in North Carolina, April 9, 1998
- High Wind in Hawaii, April 9 to 11, 1998
- High Wind in Ohio, April 9, 1998
More
Every storm in South Carolina in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for South Carolina, 1998Warnings in South Carolina, April 1998
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5637535, 5637536, 5637540, 5637537, 5637538, 5637539.