An approaching frontal boundary, seabreeze activity and a mid level shortwave helped to ignite convection across the region.
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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 CAE wrote it up.
An approaching frontal boundary, seabreeze activity and a mid level shortwave helped to ignite convection across the region.
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 28, 7:16 AM EST, 5 hours 41 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 418 AM EDT TUE JUN 28 2011 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-290830- LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD- MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON- RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON- BAMBERG- 418 AM EDT TUE JUN 28 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE STRONG TO SEVERE...WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED AT SOME POINT TODAY OR TONIGHT.
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 92 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:57 UTC.
9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Highway Department reported trees down along Hwy 45.
Sheriff's Dispatch reported trees down in Williston.
Sheriff's Dispatch reported dime to quarter size hail in Williston.
Utility Company reported trees down along Brewington Rd near Hwy 378.
Highway patrol reported trees down along Interstate 95 at mile marker 143.
Sheriff's Dispatch reported trees down at Hwy 64 and Mulberry Rd.
Public reported dime to nickel size hail and windy conditions along Lynchburg Highway.
McLeod Farms reported hail the size of pecans.
Highway Department reported trees down on Union Church Rd.
A midafternoon thunderstorm produced lightning that struck an Oak tree at Allen Benedict Court on Harden Street where 5 landscape and maintenance workers were sitting. One worker was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The others were treated and released.
Sheriff's Dispatch reported trees down near the Pisgah Community.
Highway Patrol reported trees down at the intersection of Hwy 97 and Hwy 200.
Sheriff's Dispatch reported trees down in the Liberty Hill area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, June 2011
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: 305176, 305159, 305160, 305169, 305145, 305164, 305146, 305151, 305157, 307215, 305147, 305150, 305148.