South Carolina, 2004Flash Flooding in South Carolina, June 14, 2004
June 14, 2004 · NWS CHS · 2 events in 2 counties and zones
2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 Jun 14, 1:45 PM EST, 3 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 1:45 PM EST, 3 hours 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
245 PM EDT MON JUN 14 2004
.PUBLIC...AREA OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS OVER THE UPPER GA COAST ACROSS
THE SAVANNAH RIVER INTO SW CORNER OF SC. EXPECT AREAL COVERAGE WILL
CONTINUE TO INCREASE THRU THIS AFTN AND WELL INTO THE EVENING HOURS
AS PER THE PAST COUPLE OF NIGHTS. ABUNDANT MOISTURE REMAINS
AVAILABLE WITH P/WS STILL ABOVE 2 INCHES. LATEST RUC SHOWS VORT MAX
MOVING FROM THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE ACROSS SRN GA INTO SW SOUTH
CAROLINA TONIGHT. WILL MAINTAIN THE LIKELY POPS FOR AREA ALONG
EITHER SIDE OF THE SAVANNAH RIVER AND CHANCE POPS FOR REMAINDER OF
CWA FOR TONIGHT. WITH THE HIGH SITTING OFF THE ATLANTIC COAST AND
THE LOW MOVING NORTHWARD OUT OF THE GULF...THERE WILL BE AMPLE
MOISTURE OVER THE SERN STATES FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. BOTH ETA
AND GFS KEEP HIGH CHC TO LIKELY POPS INTO WED. SEVERAL VORT MAXES
WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA...KEEPING A GOOD CHANCE OF CONVECTION.
AFTER WEDNESDAY...EXPECTING MORE OF DIURNAL CONVECTION. AS A RESULT
WILL MAINTAIN POPS AROUND 30 PERCENT DURING THE AFTERNOON EVENING
HOURS.
RAIN HAS BEEN FURTHER EAST OF THE AREAS THAT RECEIVED THE HEAVY RAIN
OVER THE WEEKEND. COULD GET MORE HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THAT AREA TONIGHT
BUT ITS NOT A SURE THING. CONSIDERED A FLASH FLOOD WATCH BUT DECIDED
TO HOLD OFF FOR NOW. WILL STILL HAVE TO MONITOR TRENDS CLOSELY TO
SEE IF HEAVY RAIN DEVELOP OVER TATTNALL...EVANS AND BULLOCH COUNTIES.
TUESDAY LOOKS TO BE ANOTHER DAY WITH HIGHS CAPPED IN THE 80S. BY WED
SHOULD SEE A WARMING TREND WITH DOWNSLOPE EFFECT WITH UPPER LEVEL
HIGH OVER THE REGION. TEMPS SHOULD BE BACK IN THE LOWER 90S INLAND
ESPECIALLY FOR THE INLAND COUNTIES FROM THU INTO THE WEEKEND.
&&
MARINE...HIGH PRES OFF THE MID ATLC STATES WILL CONT TO SINK S TWD
THE WATERS...TWD A SPOT OFF THE CAROLINA COAST BY THU. THIS WILL
GRADUALLY ALLOW WINDS TO VEER FROM SE TO SW BY THE END OF THE WEEK.
MINOR PRES GRADS WITHIN THE AFTN SEABREEZE WILL OCNLY PUSH WINDS TO
THE 15KT AREA...BUT GENLY WINDS WILL REMAIN 10-15KT THRU THE FCST
PD. LACK OF GOOD FETCH OR SURGES WILL ALSO KEEP SEAS AOB 4FT. THE
WEAK TROPICAL SYS OVER THE MS/AL/FL AREA IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE A
PROBLEM FOR THE WATERS AS THE SFC HIGH AND H5 RIDGE OVER THE AREA
SHOULD KEEP THE SYS WELL TO THE W. BY THE TIME THE TROPICAL SYS
BECOMES ABSORBED INTO THE MEAN H5 FLOW...SFC HIGH PRES WILL NUDGE
INTO THE GULF...NEGATING ITS EFFECTS. NO HEADLINES NECESSARY.
&&
.CHS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
GA...NONE.
SC...NONE.
&&
30/JPC
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 3:21 PM EST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
421 PM EDT MON JUN 14 2004
AMZ330-350-352-354-374-GAZ087-088-099>101-114>119-137>141-SCZ040-
042>045-047>051-150900-
ALLENDALE-BEAUFORT-BERKELEY-BULLOCH-CANDLER-CHARLESTON-COASTAL BRYAN-
COASTAL CHATHAM-COASTAL COLLETON-COASTAL JASPER-COASTAL LIBERTY-
COASTAL MCINTOSH-DORCHESTER-EFFINGHAM-EVANS-HAMPTON-INLAND BRYAN-
INLAND CHATHAM-INLAND COLLETON-INLAND JASPER-INLAND LIBERTY-
INLAND MCINTOSH-JENKINS-LONG-SCREVEN-TATTNALL-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALLENDALE...BEAUFORT...CHARLESTON...
CLAXTON...DARIEN...EDISTO BEACH...GOOSE CREEK...HAMPTON...
HILTON HEAD ISLAND...HINESVILLE...LUDOWICI...MCCLELLANVILLE...
METTER...MILLEN...MONCKS CORNER...PEMBROKE...REIDSVILLE...
RICHMOND HILL...RIDGELAND...SAINT GEORGE...SAINT STEPHEN...
SAVANNAH...SPRINGFIELD...STATESBORO...SUMMERVILLE...SYLVANIA...
WALTERBORO AND YEMASSEE
421 PM EDT MON JUN 14 2004
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA...
SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS FROM SOUTH SANTEE
RIVER SOUTH CAROLINA TO ALTAMAHA SOUND GEORGIA.
.DAY ONE...REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
HEAVY RAIN AND LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT. A VERY
MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS PRODUCING NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. THESE
STORMS WILL MOVE SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND
PORTIONS OF SOUTH COASTAL SOUTH CAROLINA.
NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SKYWARN SPOTTERS SHOULD REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 2:54 PM EST, 2 hours 22 minutes before
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</html>Flash Flood, Jasper
- When
- June 14, 5:16 PM EST to 7:45 PM EST
- Where
- Jasper County, North Portion
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 32.422, -81.023 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy rains from thunderstorms flooded roads near Gillisonville, Grays, and Robertville.
Flash Flood, Hampton
- When
- June 14, 6:06 PM EST to 7:45 PM EST
- Where
- Hampton County, Cummings
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 32.776, -81.141 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Thunderstorms with heavy rain flooded nearly all roads between Cummings and Early Branch. Some evacuations occurred in those areas.
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 14, 2004$547,000 · 61 kt wind · 29 events
- Flash Flood and Hail in Kansas, June 14 to 15, 2004$1.4 million · 1 in hail · 8 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 14, 2004$1.3 million · 1 in hail · 3 events
- Flash Flood and Flood in Ohio, June 14 to 15, 2004$1.2 million · 2 events
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, June 14, 2004$800,000 · 65 kt wind · 2 events
- Flooding in Ohio, June 14 to 15, 2004$200,000 · 2 events
- Lightning Strike in New York, June 14, 2004$200,000 · 1 event
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 14 to 15, 2004$100,000 · 65 kt wind · 12 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 14, 2004$90,000 · 1 in hail · 7 events
- Flood in Pennsylvania, June 14, 2004$100,000 · 1 event
- Flood in Virginia, June 14, 2004$100,000 · 1 event
- Hail in Kansas, June 14, 2004$72,000 · 1.75 in hail · 5 events
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: 5405546, 5405545.