9 thunderstorm wind, 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 Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 8, 3:10 AM EST, 5 hours 35 minutes earlier.
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NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
254 AM EST TUE MAR 08 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0240 AM MARINE TSTM WIND 1 E CHARLESTON 32.78N 79.92W
03/08/2005 55 MPH XXX XX COAST GUARD
55 MPH WIND MEASURED AT THE COAST GUARD STATION IN
CHARLESTON HARBOR.
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PAYSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 354 AM EST TUE MAR 8 2005 GAZ087-088-099>101-114>119-137>141-080915- BULLOCH-CANDLER-COASTAL BRYAN-COASTAL CHATHAM-COASTAL LIBERTY- COASTAL MCINTOSH-EFFINGHAM-EVANS-INLAND BRYAN-INLAND CHATHAM- INLAND LIBERTY-INLAND MCINTOSH-JENKINS-LONG-SCREVEN-TATTNALL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CLAXTON...DARIEN...HALFMOON LANDING... HINESVILLE...LUDOWICI...METTER...MILLEN...PEMBROKE...REIDSVILLE... SAVANNAH...SPRINGFIELD...STATESBORO...SYLVANIA...TOWNSEND... WILMINGTON AND WILMINGTON ISLAND 354 AM EST TUE MAR 8 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAS DIMINISHED...SO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A LINE OF SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS IS STILL EXPECTED TO PASS THROUGH THE AREA BETWEEN 4 AND 6 AM...PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH OR HIGHER AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 418 AM EST TUE MAR 8 2005 GAZ087-088-099-100-114-115-SCZ040-081000- ALLENDALE-BULLOCH-CANDLER-EVANS-JENKINS-SCREVEN-TATTNALL- 418 AM EST TUE MAR 8 2005 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT EVANS COUNTY...TATTNALL COUNTY... CANDLER COUNTY...BULLOCH COUNTY...JENKINS COUNTY...SCREVEN COUNTY AND ALLENDALE COUNTY THROUGH 500 AM EST... AT 418 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS...EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AIKEN TO 4 MILES EAST OF WAYNESBORO TO 15 MILES WEST OF MILLEN TO 3 MILES EAST OF SOPERTON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND AROUND HERNDON...BIRDSVILLE...ROGERS...PERKINS...LAWTON...THRIFT... MILLEN...EMMALANE...BUTTS AND FOUR POINTS THROUGH 500 AM EST. GUSTY WINDS OF 45 TO 55 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED...ALONG WITH BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINS. 33
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</html>SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 459 AM EST TUE MAR 8 2005 GAZ087-088-099>101-114>116-118-137-138-140-SCZ040-042>045-047-091000- ALLENDALE-BERKELEY-BULLOCH-CANDLER-DORCHESTER-EFFINGHAM-EVANS- HAMPTON-INLAND BRYAN-INLAND CHATHAM-INLAND COLLETON-INLAND JASPER- INLAND LIBERTY-INLAND MCINTOSH-JENKINS-LONG-SCREVEN-TATTNALL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CLAXTON...HALFMOON LANDING...HINESVILLE... LUDOWICI...METTER...MILLEN...PEMBROKE...REIDSVILLE...SAVANNAH... SPRINGFIELD...STATESBORO...SYLVANIA...TOWNSEND...ALLENDALE... HAMPTON...MONCKS CORNER...RIDGELAND...SAINT GEORGE AND WALTERBORO 459 AM EST TUE MAR 8 2005 ...LIGHT FREEZE POSSIBLE TONIGHT... AN ARCTIC AIR MASS WILL MOVE IN BEHIND A COLD FRONT TODAY AND TONIGHT. SKIES WILL CLEAR THIS AFTERNOON AND WINDS WILL DROP AFTER SUNSET...ALLOWING FOR RADIATIONAL COOLING OVERNIGHT. THIS MAY ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO DROP NEAR FREEZING IN A FEW LOCATIONS BY EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. IF FREEZING TEMPERATURES BECOME MORE CERTAIN...A FREEZE WARNING WILL BE ISSUED LATER TODAY. THOSE WITH OUTSIDE VEGETATION SUCH AS PLANTS AND FLOWERS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO PROTECT THEM FROM TONIGHTS COLD WEATHER.
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</html>The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 15 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:46 UTC.
9 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees across the county.
Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and large limbs.
Thunderstorm winds knocked down power lines and 22 trees across the county.
Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.
Thunderstorm winds knocked down large limbs in the Beaufort National Cemetery.
Trees and power lines were knocked down by thunderstorm winds.
Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and large street signs in the West Ashley section of Charleston.
Thunderstorm winds blew trees down in Whitesville, knocked trees down across Highway 52 in Bonneau, and knocked over Porta-Jons at the Moncks Corner Airport.
Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees along Route 174 from Steamboat Landing to Palmetto Road.
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 historyWarnings in South Carolina, March 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: 5440765, 5440764, 5440766, 5440767, 5440768, 5440769, 5440770, 5440772, 5440771.