Tornado in South Carolina, July 15, 2002

Name: Tornado in South Carolina, July 15, 2002
Start: 2002-07-15T18:20
End: 2002-07-15T18:25
Location: South Carolina

July 15, 2002 · NWS CHS · 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: 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.

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:21 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Charleston

When: July 15, 6:20 PM EST to 6:25 PM EST
Where: Charleston County, Charleston
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.6 mi
Path width: 30 yd
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 32.783, -79.933

A brief tornado touch down caused some damage to a storage building for an apartment complex, shingles taken off for the most part, a couple of signs bent, and a few small trees uprooted and some limbs taken out of larger trees. The touchdown was near the CBS affiliate and not far from their Doppler radar.

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.

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

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in South Carolina in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history The tornado archive for South Carolina, 2002 Warnings in South Carolina, July 2002

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: 5307078.