2 flash flood, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 15, 2:10 AM EST, 5 hours 11 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 310 AM EDT TUE JUN 15 2004 .PUBLIC...WILL ISSUE A FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL COUNTIES WITH THIS PACKAGE. MANY AREAS HAVE RECEIVED 4 INCHES OR MORE OF PRECIP OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS WITH FLOODING PROBLEMS AS A RESULT. POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR ADDITIONAL FLOODING PROBLEMS FOR TODAY. FCST SOUNDINGS SHOW VERY LIGHT STEERING FLOW AND PW VALUES CONTINUE AROUND 2 INCHES. CONTINUAL FEED OF MOISTURE INTO THE AREA. DO NOT HAVE THE SFC BNDRY IN THE VICINITY AS IN PAST DAYS BUT STILL ANTICIPATE RESIDUAL SHORTWAVE ENERGY FOR TODAY. ETA/RUC HAVE BEEN HANDLING PRECIP FCST BETTER THAN GFS LATELY AND THEY INDICATE THE FOCUS FOR ACTIVITY WILL SHIFT TO THE SC PORTION TODAY...HOWEVER MANY COUNTIES IN SE GA CANNOT HANDLE MUCH PRECIP BEFORE PROBLEMS ARE ENCOUNTERED...SO PLAN TO GO WITH A WATCH FOR ALL COUNTIES. WILL GO WITH LIKELY POPS AND TREND TOWARDS COOLER MAV NUMBERS WITH PRECIP AND CLOUDS AROUND THROUGH THE DAY. WILL CONTINUE A DECREASING TREND IN PRECIP AFTER TODAY WITH THE RIDGE TO TRY AND BUILD WEST INTO THE AREA. SHORTWAVE ENERGY EXPECTED TO BE SHUNTED TO THE N AND W HOWEVER LITTLE CHANCE EXPECTED IN PW VALUES AND STEERING WINDS WILL AGAIN BE LIGHT. ANTICIPATE A WARMING TREND IN MAX TEMPS WITH DOWNSLOPE FLOW AND WARMER TEMPS ALOFT. POTENTIAL FOR A FRONT TO MOVE INTO THE AREA EARLY NEXT WEEK BUT NOT READY TO BUY INTO THIS SCENARIO YET. && .MARINE...SLY FLOW REGIME WL REMAIN IN PLACE FOR THE ENTIRE FCST PERIOD AS HIGH PRES XTNDS E-W ACROSS THE RGN. THIS IS DEPICTED VRY WELL IN THE CURRENT SET OF TEXT AND GRIDDED FCSTS SO FEW CHANGES ARE PLANNED THIS MRNG. WNDS WL VEER TO THE SW TMRW AS LEE-SIDE TROFG DVLPS INLAND BUT SHOULD VEER MORE SLY EACH AFTN DUE TO LCL INFLUENCES OF THE ATLC SEA BREEZE. WNDS SHOULD HOLD IN THE 10-15 KT RANGE WITH SEA OF 2-4 FT. MAY SEE A SLGT INCR IN SWELL BY LTE IN THE WEEK PER WW3 OUTPUT SO HAVE MADE A FEW MINOR ADJUSTMENT TO SEAS AS A RESULT. && .CHS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 9 PM GAZ087-088-099>101-114>119-137>141. SC...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 9 PM SCZ040-042>045-047>051. && SLF/ST
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 515 AM EDT TUE JUN 15 2004 AMZ350-352-354-374-GAZ087-088-099>101-114>119-137>141-SCZ040-042>045- 047>051-161000- 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 515 AM EDT TUE JUN 15 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. ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT... .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. .FLASH FLOODING...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP TODAY ACROSS MOST OF SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. MANY AREAS HAVE AVERAGED BETWEEN 4 AND 7 INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE PAST TWO DAYS WITH LOCALIZED HIGHER AMOUNTS. WITH THE GROUND SATURATED FROM THESE RAINS...ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN COULD LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. A FLOOD WATCH HAS THEREFORE BEEN ISSUED FOR THE ENTIRE AREA. REFER TO THE LATEST FLOOD WATCH PRODUCT FOR MORE SPECIFIC INFORMATION. NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS SHOULD SELF ACTIVATE AS NEEDED AND REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
801 AM EDT TUE JUN 15 2004
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0752 AM WATER SPOUT 5 S PARRIS ISLAND 32.28N 80.68W
06/15/2004 XXX XX COAST GUARD
4 LARGE WATERSPOUTS REPORTED OVER PORT ROYAL SOUND MOVING
NORTH.
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STThe Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 48 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:23 UTC.
2 flash flood, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A tornado touched down briefly in the Pinckney National Wildlife Refuge causing little or no damage.
Heavy rainfall over several hours caused significant flooding in the West Ashley section of Charleston. Numerous roads were flooded with several feet of water including Interstate 526, Highways 17 and 61, and Ashley Hall Road. Water flooded into some cars and many needed to be towed out of the water. The water also flooded several homes in the area.
Heavy rainfall flooded most of the roads between Bluffton and Hilton Head.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for South Carolina, 2004Warnings in South Carolina, June 2004
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: 5405547, 5405549, 5405548.