Ahead of a pre-frontal squall line, the Storm Prediction Center issued a Tornado Watch for much of the region due to a favorable combination of kinematic and thermodynamic parameters. A 40 knot wind max was forecast to move through the region before a squall line during peak heating.
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.
Ahead of a pre-frontal squall line, the Storm Prediction Center issued a Tornado Watch for much of the region due to a favorable combination of kinematic and thermodynamic parameters. A 40 knot wind max was forecast to move through the region before a squall line during peak heating.
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 Apr 7, 11:32 AM EST, 1 hour earlier.
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</html>SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 953 AM EDT MON APR 7 2014 GAZ087-088-099>101-114>119-137>141-SCZ040-042>045-047>052-071800- JENKINS-SCREVEN-CANDLER-BULLOCH-EFFINGHAM-TATTNALL-EVANS- INLAND BRYAN-COASTAL BRYAN-INLAND CHATHAM-COASTAL CHATHAM-LONG- INLAND LIBERTY-COASTAL LIBERTY-INLAND MCINTOSH-COASTAL MCINTOSH- ALLENDALE-HAMPTON-INLAND COLLETON-DORCHESTER-INLAND BERKELEY- INLAND JASPER-BEAUFORT-COASTAL COLLETON-CHARLESTON-COASTAL JASPER- TIDAL BERKELEY- 953 AM EDT MON APR 7 2014 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS CENTRAL AND WESTERN GEORGIA WILL CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN AS IT MOVES EAST TODAY. THE LINE IS EXPECTED TO STRENGTHEN INTO A SQUALL LINE AS IT APPROACHES SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. AS THE LINE PUSHES THROUGH BETWEEN 1 PM AND 7 PM...THERE WILL BE A RISK FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND TORNADOES. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING MINOR FLOODING WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. A TORNADO WATCH WILL LIKELY BE ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO REVIEW YOUR SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY PROCEDURES. SCHOOLS ARE ALSO ENCOURAGED TO REVIEW THEIR TORNADO ACTION PLANS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO ALL HAZARDS...TV OR YOUR LOCAL NEWS SOURCE FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS.
1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway in the eastbound lane of I-526, near mile marker 19.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, April 2014
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: 512202.