A weak warm front in combination with differential heating boundaries and the sea breeze resulted in scattered thunderstorm development across southern South Carolina.
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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 episode as NWS CHS wrote it up.
A weak warm front in combination with differential heating boundaries and the sea breeze resulted in scattered thunderstorm development 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 May 10, 3:13 PM EST, 2 minutes earlier.
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</html>SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 334 PM EDT SAT MAY 10 2008 SCZ043>045-050-102015- BERKELEY-CHARLESTON-DORCHESTER-INLAND COLLETON- 334 PM EDT SAT MAY 10 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT BERKELEY COUNTY...DORCHESTER COUNTY...COLLETON COUNTY AND CHARLESTON COUNTY THROUGH 415 PM EDT... AT 332 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BYRD...OR ABOUT OVER SAINT GEORGE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. IN ADDITION...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN BAMBERG COUNTY MAY MOVE INTO WESTERN PORTIONS OF COLLETON AND DORCHESTER COUNTIES BY 415 PM. AREAS IN AND AROUND DORCHESTER...GIVHANS...HARLEYVILLE...JEDBURG... KNIGHTSVILLE...REEVESVILLE...RIDGEVILLE...SAINT GEORGE AND SUMMERVILLE WILL BE IMPACTED THROUGH 415 PM EDT. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH. BE READY TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION IN CASE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR LOCATION. 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), 114 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:16 UTC.
26 hail, 1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A trained weather spotter reported quarter size hail on Highway 17A South. The hail fell for 10 minutes.
Quarter size hail was reported near Pinopolis, South Carolina.
Nickel size hail was reported in Moncks Corner, South Carolina.
Nickel size hail was reported in Summerville, South Carolina.
Nickel size hail and 40 mph winds were reported in New Hope, South Carolina.
Quarter size hail was reported in Moncks Corner, South Carolina.
Quarter size hail was reported near Moncks Corner, South Carolina.
Ping Pong ball size hail was reported 5 miles south of Moncks Corner, South Carolina.
Quarter size hail was reported in Old Cordesville, South Carolina.
A trained weather spotter reported that quarter size hail fell for 3 minutes in Carnes Crossroads, South Carolina.
Quarter size hail was reported in Sangaree, South Carolina.
A trained weather spotter reported ping pong ball size hail 3 miles east-northeast of Summerville, South Carolina.
A trained weather spotter reported a funnel cloud near the town of Sangaree, South Carolina.
A trained weather spotter reported penny size hail cover the ground in Sangaree, South Carolina.
Penny size hail was reported in College Park, South Carolina.
A trained weather spotter reported golf ball size hail in Sangaree, South Carolina.
Quarter size hail was reported 2 miles east-northeast of Summerville, South Carolina.
A trained weather spotter reported penny size hail covering the ground in Goose Creek, South Carolina.
A trained weather spotter reported penny size hail in Goose Creek, South Carolina.
A trained weather spotter reported pea to quarter size hail in Goose Creek, South Carolina.
A trained weather spotter reported nickel size hail at the Northwoods Mall in North Charleston, South Carolina.
A trained weather spotter reported penny size hail in Hanahan, South Carolina.
A trained weather spotter reported nickel size hail in Hanahan, South Carolina.
A trained weather spotter reported penny size hail 2 miles north of Hanahan, South Carolina.
Nickel size hail was reported in Moncks Corner, South Carolina.
A trained weather spotter reported nickel size hail 3 miles south-southeast of Cainhoy, South Carolina. Winds were also estimated at 45 mph.
Penny size hail was reported in Mount Pleasant, 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, May 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: 94702, 95178, 95179, 95181, 95192, 95195, 95199, 95203, 95207, 95208, 95210, 95211, 94701, 95212, 95213, 95214, 95224, 95228, 95229, 95230, 95233, 95236, 95238, 95239, 95241, 95244, 95247.