A large ridge of high pressure at the surface and aloft resulted in excessively hot and humid conditions across the area.
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 episode as NWS CHS wrote it up.
A large ridge of high pressure at the surface and aloft resulted in excessively hot and humid conditions across the area.
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 Aug 10, 12:39 PM EST, 21 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 434 AM EDT FRI AUG 10 2007 GAZ087-088-099>101-114>119-137>141-SCZ040-042>045-047>051-111000- JENKINS-SCREVEN-CANDLER-BULLOCH-EFFINGHAM-TATTNALL-EVANS- INLAND BRYAN-COASTAL BRYAN-INLAND CHATHAM-COASTAL CHATHAM-LONG- INLAND LIBERTY-COASTAL LIBERTY-INLAND MCINTOSH-COASTAL MCINTOSH- ALLENDALE-HAMPTON-INLAND COLLETON-DORCHESTER-BERKELEY-INLAND JASPER- BEAUFORT-COASTAL COLLETON-CHARLESTON-COASTAL JASPER- 434 AM EDT FRI AUG 10 2007 ...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... ...EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING. STRONG/SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH. STRONG/SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ON SATURDAY. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. EXCESSIVE HEAT...HEAT INDICES MAY REACH THE 105 TO 110 DEGREES RANGE MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. HEAT ADVISORIES AND/OR EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNINGS MAY EVENTUALLY BE NEEDED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. AMZ330-350-352-354-374-111000- CHARLESTON HARBOR- WATERS FROM SOUTH SANTEE RIVER TO EDISTO BEACH SC OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM EDISTO BEACH SC TO SAVANNAH GA OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM SAVANNAH GA TO ALTAMAHA SOUND GA OUT 20 NM...INCLUDING GRAYS REEF NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY- WATERS FROM SAVANNAH GA TO ALTAMAHA SOUND GA EXTENDING FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 434 AM EDT FRI AUG 10 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1224 PM EDT FRI AUG 10 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1200 PM RIP CURRENTS FOLLY BEACH 32.65N 79.94W
08/08/2007 CHARLESTON SC COUNTY OFFICIAL
LIFEGUARDS REPORT 2 RIP CURRENTS OUTSIDE THE SWIMMING
AREA OF THE COUNTY PARK. 1 RIP CURRENT A FIXED RIP
CURRENT WITH 1 RESCUE.
1025 AM RIP CURRENTS FOLLY BEACH 32.65N 79.94W
08/10/2007 CHARLESTON SC COUNTY OFFICIAL
LIFEGUARDS REPORT A FIXED RIP CURRENT OUTSIDE THE
SWIMMING AREA AT THE COUNTY PARK.
&&
331 excessive heat. Local standard time, as filed.
Heat indices reached 120 degrees at Charleston International Airport. Heat indices across much of southern South Carolina topped out between 115 and 120 degrees as well.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, August 2007
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: 53571.