A cold front pushed into an adequately unstable airmass and resulted in scattered thunderstorms across southern South Carolina.
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The episode as NWS CHS wrote it up.
A cold front pushed into an adequately unstable airmass and resulted in scattered thunderstorms across southern South Carolina.
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 93 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:55 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A trained weather spotter reported several large tree limbs 6 to 8 inches in diameter were snapped off of several trees by strong thunderstorm winds.
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