mainly from trees being taken down.
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 CAE wrote it up.
Microburst from scattered thunderstorms produced wind damage across the central Midlands and Pee Dee region...mainly from trees being taken down.
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 Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 29, 1:45 PM EST, 28 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 245 PM EDT TUE JUN 29 2010 .SYNOPSIS... SCATTERED MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED. A FRONT WILL SLOWLY ENTER OUR REGION WEDNESDAY...INCREASING PRECIPITATION CHANCES. THE FRONT WILL SLOWLY MOVE THROUGH LATE THURSDAY...THEN DRIER AND COOLER AIR IS EXPECTED TO ENTER OUR REGION BEHIND THE FRONT FOR FRIDAY THROUGH THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... WARM UNSTABLE AIRMASS LINGERS OVER THE FORECAST AREA AGAIN TODAY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS ALREADY BEEN ISSUED MAINLY FOR THE NORTHERN COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM THIS EVENING. A SURFACE TROUGH LINGERS OVER THE PIEDMONT OF THE CAROLINAS WITH A COLD FRONT APPROACHING THE TN VALLEY. DIURNAL HEATING WITH PLENTIFUL ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE EXPECTED TO RESULT IN SCATTERED MAINLY DIURNAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. MODERATE INSTABILITIES WILL LEAD TO A THREAT THAT A FEW OF THE STRONGER STORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS. WILL KEEP HIGH CHANCE/LIKELY POPS INTO THE EVENING...AND WILL KEEP A SMALL POP OVERNIGHT FOR THE ENTIRE AREA AS THE AIRMASS REMAINS SOMEWHAT UNSTABLE INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS AND WITH THE COLD FRONT JUST NORTH OF THE AREA. && .SHORT TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT/... MODELS SLOWLY BRING FRONTAL BOUNDARY INTO OUR REGION WEDNESDAY. WITH BOUNDARY IN VICINITY...AND COPIOUS ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE AVAILABLE (PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES OVER 2 INCHES)... WILL RAISE POPS TO LIKELY CATEGORY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. SLOWER MOVEMENT OF STORMS PLUS ABUNDANT MOISTURE COULD LEAD TO A LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND URBAN/LOCALIZED FLOODING THREAT FOR WEDNESDAY. MODELS SLOWLY SHIFT THE FRONT TOWARDS THE SOUTHERN FA LATE DAY THURSDAY...WITH SOME DRIER AIR ENTERING THE NORTHERN PART OF OUR FA. WILL HAVE CHANCE POPS AND TREND POPS FROM NORTH TO SOUTH...THOUGH THERE ARE INHERENT UNCERTAINTIES WITH EXACT TIMING AND POSITION OF FRONT. && .LONG TERM /FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY/... HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER THE AREA THROUGH THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. FOR NOW WILL KEEP THE FORECAST AREA DRY THROUGH THE ENTIRE PERIOD. TEMPERATURES CLOSE TO NORMAL. && .AVIATION /18Z TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/... AIR MASS MODERATELY UNSTABLE. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING...ESPECIALLY TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF KCAE/KAGS. COVERAGE SHOULD INCREASE DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. VCTS/CB IN TAFS THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. IMPROVING CONDITIONS FORECAST BY MID TO LATE EVENING. BULK OF CONVECTION EXPECTED TO BE DIURNAL. EXTENDED AVIATION OUTLOOK...A COLD FRONT...NOW NORTH OF THE AREA...WILL SLOWLY MOVE SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE TAF SITES WEDNESDAY INTO EARLY THURSDAY. CONVECTION COULD PRODUCE PERIODS OF MVFR/IFR CONDITIONS. DRIER AIR COULD FILTER IN FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY. && .CAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SC...NONE. GA...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 432 AM EDT TUE JUN 29 2010 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-300832- AIKEN-BAMBERG-BARNWELL-BURKE-CALHOUN-CHESTERFIELD-CLARENDON-COLUMBIA- EDGEFIELD-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-LANCASTER-LEE-LEXINGTON-LINCOLN-MCCORMICK- MCDUFFIE-NEWBERRY-ORANGEBURG-RICHLAND-RICHMOND-SALUDA-SUMTER- 432 AM EDT TUE JUN 29 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MIDLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA OF GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE SOME LOCAL GUSTY WINDS FROM DOWNBURSTS WHICH MAY BRING SOME TREES DOWN AND DO SOME DAMAGE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER THIS AFTERNOON.
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 66 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:14 UTC.
23 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
DOT reported trees down on Highways 32 and 52.
EM reported large limbs down around town.
Police department reported powerlines down on Chapin road.
WIS TV reported large limbs down and a tree on a home.
NWS employee reported trees down on the northeast side of Irmo.
EM reported dime to penny size hail at I-20 and HWY 601.
Sheriff reported trees down I-26 near exit 82 and in the Prosperity area of Lake Murray.
Sheriff reported trees down on Jordan and Kennedy roads.
Fire Dept. reported large limbs down, trees down, and a roof tore off of a chicken house in Brocks Mill Community.
NWS employee reported trees down just east of Irmo east of I-20.
Sheriff reported trees down on Hwy 378 near Hwy 601.
Public reported penny size hail.
Sheriff reported trees down on Hwy 378 near the Wateree River.
Sheriff reported trees down on a home soutwest of Red Bank.
Sheriff reported trees down Ann Worsham and Burnt Branch roads.
Sheriff reported penny size hail southeast of Turbeville.
DOT reported trees down in the Ft. Motte area.
Sheriff and EM reported trees down on Old Jackson Highway and very large branches down in town.
Sheriff reported trees down in Earhardt and on Thunder Road.
DOT reported several trees down on US 378.
Emergency Manager reported trees down on Forest Creek Drive.
DOT reported several trees down on Jones Bridge road.
Sheriff reported a couple of trees down from Hwy 3 and Pineneedle road to near Galilee and South Toby Creek roads.
Sheriff reported large trees down on November and Hartzog roads.
DOT reported a couple of trees down on Lodge Hall Street.
EM, who is also a trained spotter, reported an estimated wind gust to 60mph at the intersection of I-20 and HWY 601.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, June 2010
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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 229083, 229084, 229085, 229086, 229088, 229080, 229091, 229089, 229090, 229092, 229093, 229095, 229094, 229096, 229098, 229099, 229097, 229101, 229104, 229102, 229108, 229103, 229106, 229105, 229109, 229082.