Tornado in South Carolina, September 29, 1999

Name: Tornado in South Carolina, September 29, 1999
Start: 1999-09-29T19:40
End: 1999-09-29T20:05
Location: South Carolina

September 29, 1999 · NWS ILM · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 6
Property damage: $240,000
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.

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 99 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:40 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Darlington

When: September 29, 7:40 PM EST to 8:05 PM EST
Where: Darlington County, Clyde to Dovesville
Rating: F1
Path length: 15 mi
Path width: 20 yd
Injuries: 6 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $240,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 34.380, -80.180

A tornado touched down at Clyde, just west of the HB Robinson nuclear power plant, and tracked across the Pine Ridge area. The storm continued east-northeast, north of Hartsville across mostly rural areas, to near the Darlington County Jetport. There was spotty damage along a 15 mile path - 11 mobile homes were destroyed and 15 more were damaged. One house had major damage. Six businesses were listed as destroyed. Six injured people were treated and released.

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.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in South Carolina in 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history The tornado archive for South Carolina, 1999 Warnings in South Carolina, September 1999

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: 5718389.