1 tornado, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. 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 Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 12, 12:50 PM EST, 5 hours 59 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 150 PM EDT TUE APR 12 2005 .SYNOPSIS...AN UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL SLOWLY MOVE ACROSS THE STATE THROUGH THURSDAY. && .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT)... ANOTHER CUTOFF UPPER LOW WILL MOVE OVER THE AREA DURING THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY AND OFF THE NORTH CAROLINA COAST BY THURSDAY. A SHORTWAVE WILL APPROACH THE AREA IN ADVANCE OF THIS SYSTEM TONIGHT. WILL GO WITH A LIKELY POP THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS DECREASING TO CHANCE POP OVERNIGHT AND SLIGHT CHANCE EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. THEN AS THE UPPER LOW MOVES ACROSS THE STATE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT WITH ITS ASSOCIATED COLD POOL ALOFT...EXPECT INSTABILITY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. DUE TO THE COLD TEMPS ALOFT SOME SMALL HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS. THE GFS IS QUICKER TO MOVE THE UPPER LOW EAST OF US...IN ANY EVENT...THERE SHOULD STILL BE QUITE A BIT OF RESIDUAL CLOUDINESS ON THURSDAY BUT WILL DROP POP TO THE SLIGHT CHANCE CATEGORY. DAYTIME HIGHS SHOULD AVERAGE AROUND 10 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL THROUGH THE SHORT TERM. && .LONG TERM (FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY)... HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER THE AREA THROUGH THE WEEKEND INTO THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK BRINGING DRY AND PLEASANT SPRING WEATHER TO THE AREA. TEMPERATURES WILL AVERAGE SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL THROUGH THE WEEKEND BUT WILL BE AROUND NORMAL FOR THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK. && .AVIATION... WIDESPREAD MID CLOUD LAYER WILL CONTINUE BETWEEN ABOUT 10 THOUSAND TO 20 THOUSAND FEET IN ASSOCIATION WITH SHORTWAVE SHOWN BY RUC. THIS FEATURE EXPECTED TO MOVE OVER AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING WITH ATTENDANT SHOWERS. BY EARLY EVE EXPECT CEILINGS TO LOWER TO AROUND 3 THOUSAND FEET THEN BECOME IFR BELOW 1 THOUSAND FEET/3 MILES AFTER MIDNIGHT AS LOW LEVEL MOISTURE REMAINS OVER AREA WITH LIGHT WINDS. CONDITIONS IMPROVING TO MVFR BY MID MORNING...BUT WEAK LOW PRESSURE TROUGH CONTINUES TO HOLD OVER THE AREA. && .CAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SC...NONE. GA...NONE. && 044/044/055
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 505 AM EDT TUE APR 12 2005 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-130930- AIKEN SC-BAMBERG SC-BARNWELL SC-BURKE GA-CALHOUN SC-CHESTERFIELD SC- CLARENDON SC-COLUMBIA GA-EDGEFIELD SC-FAIRFIELD SC-KERSHAW SC- LANCASTER SC-LEE SC-LEXINGTON SC-LINCOLN GA-MCCORMICK SC-MCDUFFIE GA- NEWBERRY SC-ORANGEBURG SC-RICHLAND SC-RICHMOND GA-SALUDA SC- SUMTER SC- 505 AM EDT TUE APR 12 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MIDLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA OF GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. AT THIS TIME INSTABILITY LOOKS WEAK. HOWEVER, IF THE AIRMASS CAN DESTABILIZE EVEN MORE, GIVEN THE STRONG SHEAR, A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... COOLING ALOFT AND AMPLE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL BRING THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR WEDNESDAY. A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL APPROACHING OR BRIEFLY EXCEEDING SEVERE LIMITS...BEFORE ACTIVITY DIMINISHES WEDNESDAY EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
655 PM EDT TUE APR 12 2005
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0640 PM HAIL LINCOLNTON 33.79N 82.48W
04/12/2005 0.25 INCH LINCOLN GA TRAINED SPOTTER
PEA SIZE HAIL IN CITY.
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DSSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 702 PM EDT TUE APR 12 2005 SCZ026-027-130000- LEXINGTON-SALUDA- 702 PM EDT TUE APR 12 2005 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT LEXINGTON COUNTY AND SALUDA COUNTY THROUGH 800 PM EDT... AT 702 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CENTERED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF BATESBURG...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND AROUND RIDGE SPRING...MONETTA...LEESVILLE... BATESBURG...SUMMIT...GILBERT...RED BANK...LEXINGTON...SOUTH CONGAREE AND SPRINGDALE THROUGH 800 PM EDT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO AFFECT THE LAKE MURRAY AREA. HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER...EXCESSIVE CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED. TTH
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 69 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:49 UTC.
1 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
FOX TV reported a tornado briefly touched down near hwys 176 and 121. The twister only damaged some trees.
HAM radio operator reported 3/4 inch hail.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for South Carolina, 2005Warnings in South Carolina, April 2005
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: 5440040, 5440039.