The sea breeze pushed inland and into a very unstable environment, resulting in scattered severe thunderstorms across southern South Carolina.
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 episode as NWS CHS wrote it up.
The sea breeze pushed inland and into a very unstable environment, resulting in scattered severe thunderstorms across southern South Carolina.
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 Jul 28, 12:43 PM EST, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.
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</html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</html>SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 307 PM EDT MON JUL 28 2008 SCZ045-281945- BERKELEY- 307 PM EDT MON JUL 28 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT WESTERN BERKELEY COUNTY THROUGH 345 PM EDT... AT 305 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MURRAYSVILLE...OR ABOUT OVER MONCKS CORNER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. AREAS IN AND AROUND MONCKS CORNER AND SANGAREE WILL BE IMPACTED THROUGH 345 PM EDT. FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS. IF INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD DITCHES AND LOW-LYING AREAS. AVOID FLOOD PRONE AREAS AND DO NOT DRIVE INTO PLACES WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024 IF YOU OBSERVE SEVERE WEATHER SUCH AS HAIL...DOWNED TREES...LIMBS AND POWER LINES.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 310 PM EDT MON JUL 28 2008 SCZ042-043-282000- HAMPTON-INLAND COLLETON- 310 PM EDT MON JUL 28 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT WEST CENTRAL COLLETON AND EAST CENTRAL HAMPTON COUNTIES THROUGH 400 PM EDT... AT 305 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FECHTIG...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF YEMASSEE. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. AREAS IN AND AROUND ALMEDA...CROCKETVILLE...CUMMINGS...EARLY BRANCH...HAMPTON...HENDERSONVILLE...ISLANDTON...MCPHERSONVILLE AND VARNVILLE WILL BE IMPACTED THROUGH 400 PM EDT. FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS. IF INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD DITCHES AND LOW-LYING AREAS. AVOID FLOOD PRONE AREAS AND DO NOT DRIVE INTO PLACES WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024 IF YOU OBSERVE SEVERE WEATHER SUCH AS HAIL...DOWNED TREES...LIMBS AND POWER LINES.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 312 PM EDT MON JUL 28 2008 GAZ100-115-116-282000- BULLOCH-EVANS-INLAND BRYAN- 312 PM EDT MON JUL 28 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN BRYAN...SOUTH CENTRAL BULLOCH AND EASTERN EVANS COUNTIES THROUGH 400 PM EDT... AT 310 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GROVELAND...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF CLAXTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 3 MPH. AREAS IN AND AROUND DAISY...GROVELAND AND PEMBROKE WILL BE IMPACTED THROUGH 400 PM EDT. FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS. IF INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD DITCHES AND LOW-LYING AREAS. AVOID FLOOD PRONE AREAS AND DO NOT DRIVE INTO PLACES WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024 IF YOU OBSERVE SEVERE WEATHER SUCH AS HAIL...DOWNED TREES...LIMBS AND POWER LINES.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 350 PM EDT MON JUL 28 2008 SCZ044-045-050-282030- BERKELEY-CHARLESTON-DORCHESTER- 350 PM EDT MON JUL 28 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT NORTH CENTRAL CHARLESTON...EAST CENTRAL DORCHESTER AND CENTRAL BERKELEY COUNTIES THROUGH 430 PM EDT... AT 348 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS OF 45 TO 55 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR NEW HOPE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF SUMMERVILLE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH. AREAS IN AND AROUND COLLEGE PARK...JEDBURG...KNIGHTSVILLE...MONCKS CORNER...RIDGEVILLE...SANGAREE AND SUMMERVILLE WILL BE IMPACTED THROUGH 430 PM EDT. FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS. IF INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD DITCHES AND LOW-LYING AREAS. AVOID FLOOD PRONE AREAS AND DO NOT DRIVE INTO PLACES WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024 IF YOU OBSERVE SEVERE WEATHER SUCH AS HAIL...DOWNED TREES...LIMBS AND POWER LINES.
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 15 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:48 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Law enforcement reported a tree down near the intersection of Highway 278 and Pocotaligo Road.
A trained weather spotter reported a tree down near the intersection of Turner Road and Ginn Road in Nixville, South Carolina.
A trained weather spotter reported a tree down along Highway 3 near Nixville, South Carolina.
The public reported a tree down on a road in Summerville, South Carolina.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, July 2008
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: 124221, 124219, 124220, 124218.