South Carolina, 2001

Hail in South Carolina, August 20, 2001

August 20, 2001 · NWS CHS · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 20, 2:10 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 20, 2:10 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
310 PM EDT MON AUG 20 2001

SCATTERED SHRA/TSRA CONTINUE ACROSS THE CWA ESP ALG THE SC COAST AND
INTO THE SRN GA ZONES. AXIS OF PVA WILL SLIDE SE OF MOST OF THE CWA
BY LATE TNGT...THEN OFF THE COAST TUE. WILL HOLD ON TO 20 POPS FOR
NW ZONES TIL MIDNIGHT. WILL GO WITH 30 POPS FOR SC COASTAL ZONES AND
HOLD THRU THE NIGHT TIL LAST BIT OF ENERGY MOVES OFFSHORE. WILL GO
WITH 30 POPS FOR INLAND SE GA TIL MIDNIGHT OR SHORTLY AFTER. GA
COAST SHUD HAVE THE BEST AND LONGEST CHC TNGT AS THE S/WV OVER SRN
AL WILL TAKE TIL EARLY TUE MORNING TO MOVE OFF THE COAST.

CD FNT TIMING WILL BE A LITTLE TRICKIER AND FNT MAY NOT GET
COMPLETELY OFF THE COAST TIL LATE TUE/EARLY TUE NIGHT. HOWEVER...
MID/UPPER LVL MOISTURE DECREASES DRAMATICALLY OVN AND EARLY TUE.
WITH ONLY SHALLOW MOISTURE NEAR THE SFC TUE AND MAINLY ALG THE
COAST...DONT EXPECT ANY MORE THAN CU DEVELOPMENT...BUT WUD NOT BE
SHOCKED IF AN ISOLD SHRA DEVELOPED ALG A WEAK SEABREEZE. WILL GO OUT
WITH 10 POPS FOR ENTIRE CWA AND M/SUNNY NW TO P/CLOUDY SE.

TUE NIGHT/WED SHUD BE M/CLEAR WITH DEWPTS MAINLY IN THE 60S. WILL
FCST TEMPS NR GUIDANCE.

MOISTURE STARTS TO RETURN THU INTO FRI. WILL KEEP POPS OUT OF THU
FOR NOW AS 12Z AVN STILL LOOKS RATHER DRY. WILL BRING BACK 20 POPS
FRI...THEN 30 FOR SAT/SUN FOR MAINLY AFTN/EVE PCPN.

CWF...AVN AND ETA BOTH SHOWING WEAK FRONT STALLING AND DISSIPATING
OVER THE WATERS ON TUE. WILL LEAN TOWARDS AVN W WIND DIRECTION FOR
TUE MORNING...THEN BECMG LIGHT AND VARIABLE TUE AND TUE NIGHT...AS
INDICATED BY BOTH AVN AND ETA. WED AS HI BUILDS OVER AREA WINDS
BECMG LIGHT NE...THEN E. THEN ONCE AGAIN VARIABLE AS BERMUDA HIGH
RIDGES ACROSS AREA.

HIGH ASTRO TIDES AGAIN THIS EVE...BUT BEGINNING TO DECREASE. TIDE
DEPARTURES A FEW TENTHS OF A FT BELOW PREDICTED VALUES THIS AFTN.
WITH LITTLE OR NO ONSHORE FLOW SEE NO REASON FOR THE DEPARTURES TO
CHANGE MUCH. WILL NOT INCLUDE ANY HEADLINES FOR SHALLOW COASTAL
FLOODING THIS PKG.

FCSTID = 20
CHS   71  90  68  88 /  30  10  10  10
SAV   71  91  67  91 /  30  10   0   0
CHL   75  89  72  88 /  30  10  10  10
NBC   71  90  68  89 /  30  10  10  10
RBW   69  90  65  90 /  20  10   0   0

.CHS...
GA...NONE.
SC...NONE.

TJR/SLB

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 90 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:17 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Dorchester

When
August 20, 4:20 PM EST to 4:25 PM EST
Where
Dorchester County, Summerville
Measured
0.88 in hail
Reported by
NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
Coordinates
33.017, -80.183

What these are

Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

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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: 5264368.