Thunderstorm Wind, Allendale
- When
- August 10, 9:15 PM EST to 9:25 PM EST
- Where
- Allendale County, Countywide
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 33.000, -81.333
Numerous trees, limbs, and power lines down countywide.
Damaging Wind in South Carolina, August 10, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
- None recorded
- 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 forecasters said that day
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 Aug 10, 8:00 PM EST, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 8:00 PM EST, 1 hour 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 900 PM EDT FRI AUG 10 2001 MOST OF SWR/TSTM ACTIVITY AS DISSIPATED WTH SUNSET...BUT SOME ACTIVITY RMNS ON PERIPHERY OF CWA. QUESTION WL BE HOW FAR IN WL IT GET AND WHETHER IT WL LAST PAST MDNT. PLAN ON AN UPDATE TO REMOVE PCPN MNTN FOR MST ZNS. WL DECIDE BY PRESS TIME WHETHER TO KEEP CHC POPS GOING FOR SRN GA/WRN ZNS LONGER THAN MDNT. TEMPS LOOK OK FOR NOW. CWF...APPEARS THAT THE SURGE IS RETURNING TO CSTL BUOY LOCATIONS ATTM. WNDS GENERALLY S-SW 15-20 KT. CRNT FCST LOOKS GOOD. PLAN TO BRNG CONDS CRNT ON UPDATE. .CHS... GA...NONE. SC...NONE. EVT
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 47 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:14 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 10, 2001
- Flash Flood in Alabama, August 10, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Massachusetts, August 10, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Delaware, August 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strikes in Texas, August 10, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, August 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 10, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Mississippi, August 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 10, 2001
- Flash Flood in Alabama, August 10, 2001
- Flash Flood in Mississippi, August 10, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, August 10, 2001
More
Every storm in South Carolina in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, August 2001
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: 5264366.