2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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 Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 12, 2:29 PM EST, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 329 PM EDT SAT MAY 12 2001 SHORT WAVE INITIATING CONVECTION WILL MOVE EAST OF THE AREA THIS EVENING. COLD FRONT TO CROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF SHOWERS/TSTMS UNTIL AROUND MIDNIGHT. UPPER TROUGH SWINGING THROUGH SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT..EMBEDDED SHORT WAVE CROSSING SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING. THIS SHOULD PRODUCE A FEW CLOUDS. ETA SHOWING H8 MOISTURE SUNDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY MONDAY MORNING. SURFACE RIDGE BUILDS FOR MONDAY. MOS TEMPS LOOK REASONABLE WITH LOWS IN THE MID/UPPER 50S TONIGHT AND IN THE MID 40S SUNDAY NIGHT. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S TO LOWER 80S SUNDAY AND MONDAY. FOR THE EXTENDED...NEXT CHANCE FOR RAIN STILL LOOKS LIKE WEDNESDAY AS A FRONT CROSSES THE STATE. ENSEMBLE FORECAST INDICATES LOW CONFIDENCE FOR POPS AND TEMPS ON WEDNESDAY. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY LOOK DRY WITH CHANCE OF PRECIP AGAIN ON SATURDAY. FCSTID =V 10 CAE 58 81 46 82 / 30 10 0 0 AGS 57 81 45 83 / 30 0 0 0 SSC 58 81 46 82 / 40 10 0 0 OGB 58 81 46 83 / 40 0 0 0 .CAE... GA...NONE. SC...NONE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
352 PM EDT SAT MAY 12 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
335 PM MARTINEZ GA .75 INCH HAIL
05/12/01 COLUMBIA PUBLIC REPORTED DIME
SIZED HAIL IN MARTINEZ
OFF BELLEAIR ROADn NEAR
INTERSTATE 20.
DCMThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
EPD director reported large branches down in and north of the town of Sumter.
Police reported dime size hail.
Sheriff reported a couple of trees down in Springdale.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, May 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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5243511, 5243512, 5243513.