1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 25, 9:22 AM EST, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED POPS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 1021AM EDT MON JUN 25 2001 REMNANTS OF FNTL BNDRY S OF SAV RIVER CONTINUES TO WEAKEN. SEABREEZE/CONVERGENT BNDRY ALONG/JUST OFF THE COAST IS FIRING CONVECTION WITH WATERSPOUTS HAVING BEEN REPORTED. CELLS ARE SLOWLY MOVING TOWARDS THE COAST AND INLAND BUT GENERALLY WEAKENING. WILL GO WITH GOOD CHANCE POPS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. PLENTY OF SUNSHINE INLAND GA PORTION AND PORTIONS OF INLAND SC CWA. SHORTWAVE ENERGY EXPECTED TO SWING THROUGH THE AREA TODAY. WILL CUT TEMPS A BIT OVER NRN PORTION OTHERWISE CURRENT FCST LOOKS TO BE ON TRACK. CWF...WK LO E OF 41008 HAS BROUGHT WIND DIR TO MORE NE/N COMPONENT ACRS CSTL WATERS. MESO ETA/ETA SEEMS TO HAVE BEST HANDLE ON THS FEATURE AND HAS WINDS PROGGED TO BECOME MORE ERLY THS AFTN AS LOW WEAKENS AND RETROGRADES WWD AS H5 UPR LO OVR NRN GA DOES LIKEWISE. PG STL WK...SO WIND SPDS REMAIN 10 KT OR LESS AND WAVES 3 FT OR LESS. WL ADJST WIND DIR ACCDGLY..NO OTR CHNAGES XPCTD. FCSTID = 18 CHS 85 71 87 71 / 50 20 30 20 SAV 87 70 87 70 / 40 20 30 20 CHL 86 73 87 73 / 50 20 30 20 NBC 86 71 87 71 / 50 20 30 20 RBW 86 69 88 69 / 50 30 30 30 .CHS... GA...NONE. SC...NONE. SLF/WOODWORTH
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON, SC
1026 AM EDT MON JUN 25 2001
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1010 AM HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC TSTM WIND GUST
06/25/01 BEAUFORT ESTIMATED 70 MPH WINDS.
REPORTED BY BEAUFORT EMA.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Construction foreman was killed while trying to clear his crew from a construction site. After the bolt struck the foreman, it traveled through the ground and struck another worker, coming up through the ground into the leg of a 43 year old male worker.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning, Chatham | 2001-06-25 | 50 | Male | Outside/Open Areas | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Georgia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, June 2001
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: 5253656.