Scattered thunderstorms developed in the afternoon hours and lingered into the evening across portions of southeast South Carolina. These thunderstorms developed along and just south of a nearly stationary front to the north and produced numerous lightning strikes and thunderstorm wind damage reports.
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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.
Scattered thunderstorms developed in the afternoon hours and lingered into the evening across portions of southeast South Carolina. These thunderstorms developed along and just south of a nearly stationary front to the north and produced numerous lightning strikes and thunderstorm wind damage reports.
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 25, 1:11 PM EST, 59 minutes earlier.
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</html>SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
228 PM EDT FRI JUL 25 2014
SCZ045-052-251900-
INLAND BERKELEY-TIDAL BERKELEY-
228 PM EDT FRI JUL 25 2014
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF CHARLESTON AND
BERKELEY COUNTIES THROUGH 300 PM EDT...
AT 224 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM...NEAR RICHMOND...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...
RICHMOND...HAGAN...NEW HOPE...LIMERICK...SMITH...HUGER...THOMAS
CORNER...HALFWAY CREEK...
PREPARE NOW FOR THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS...
GUSTY WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH...
TORRENTIAL RAIN WHICH MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. IF
OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED TALL OBJECTS. IF INDOORS...STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING PLUMBING AND ELECTRICAL
APPLIANCES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 3318 7955 3315 7958 3312 7964 3309 7966
3304 7972 3301 7973 3299 7976 3297 7977
3293 7997 3318 8004
TIME...MOT...LOC 1827Z 266DEG 29KT 3307 7986The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 139 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:10 UTC.
9 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Multiple trees reported down on South Carolina Highway 45 near the intersection with Highway 17.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Bears Bluff Road at Truckfarm Road.
Beaufort County emergency manager reported a tree and powerlines down on Highway 17 near William A Campbell Road.
Beaufort County emergency manager reported a structure fire on Newpoint Road due to a lightning strike.
Beaufort County emergency manager reported a tree down on a vehicle on Ladys Island Drive.
Beaufort County emergency manager reported a structure fire on Flycatcher Lane due to a lightning strike.
A tree reported down on Sea Island Parkway on Ladys Island.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Glover Road on St. Helena Island.
Beaufort County communications center reported a tree down on Perry Road at Orange Grove Road.
Beaufort County emergency manager reported a structure fire on Dore Drive due to a lightning strike.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Old House Road and Bees Creek Road.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway on Jericho Road between Augusta Stage Coach Road and Collie Road.
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, July 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: 531853, 531855, 531854, 531856, 531857, 531858, 531859, 531861, 531863, 531860, 531862, 531864.