Severe thunderstorms produced damaging winds and large hail. Most of the wind damage was mainly trees and powerlines down.
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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.
Severe thunderstorms produced damaging winds and large hail. Most of the wind damage was mainly trees and powerlines down. One small EF0 tornado touched down just southeast of Bamberg snapping off trees.
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 6, 5:26 PM EST, 46 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 626 PM EDT FRI JUN 6 2014 .SYNOPSIS... A WEAK FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL REMAIN NEAR THE FORECAST AREA THROUGH SUNDAY. THIS WILL RESULT IN SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM SATURDAY MORNING/... THE WEAK FRONT WILL REMAIN STALLED IN THE FORECAST AREA THROUGH TONIGHT. DEEPER MOISTURE AND STRONGER INSTABILITY IS SOUTH OF THE AREA. THE MODELS INDICATE LITTLE OR NO UPPER-LEVEL LIFT OVERNIGHT. THE THUNDERSTORM CHANCE APPEARS LOW ESPECIALLY LATE TONIGHT WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING. THE HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS DISPLAYS LITTLE COVERAGE. THE TEMPERATURE GUIDANCE WAS CLOSE WITH LOWS AROUND 70. && .SHORT TERM /6 AM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT/... THE DIFFUSE FRONT WILL REMAIN STALLED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN CWA THROUGH SUNDAY. THIS FRONT WILL INTERACT WITH A MOIST AND MODERATELY UNSTABLE AIR MASS TO CONTINUE THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE SOUTH MIDLANDS/CSRA. MODELS ALSO INDICATE A SERIES OF SHORTWAVE IMPULSES CROSSING THE REGION WITHIN A QUASI-ZONAL FLOW ALOFT. WILL ALSO HAVE TO FACTOR IN REMNANTS OF UPSTREAM MCS ACTIVITY. KEPT POPS IN THE 30 TO 50 PERCENT RANGE BOTH DAYS. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN THE UPPER 80S TO LOW 90S WITH LOWS IN THE UPPER 60S TO LOWER 70S. && .LONG TERM /MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... A MID AND UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OVER THE EAST COAST STATES WILL SLIDE OFFSHORE WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY AS AN UPPER TROUGH OVER THE PLAINS MONDAY ADVANCES EASTWARD TO THE APPALACHIANS. THERE IS MUCH UNCERTAINTY AS TO THE TIMING AND STRENGTH OF THE UPPER TROUGH. HOWEVER...THE POTENTIAL FOR MAINLY DIURNAL STORMS WILL REMAIN THROUGH FRIDAY...GIVEN A MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE LONG TERM WILL BE NEAR TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL WITH HIGHS IN THE LOW 90S AND LOWS MAINLY IN THE UPPER 60S TO LOWER 70S. && .AVIATION /22Z FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... VFR CONDITIONS TO DOMINATE THE PERIOD WITH BRIEF MVFR/IFR POSSIBLE IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. NEARLY QUASI-STATIONARY FRONT CURRENTLY DRAPED ACROSS THE SC MIDLANDS. MAINLY DRY OVER THE AREA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON BUT WATCHING A COUPLE OF CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE TN VALLEY MOVING SE. LATEST HRRR DOES NOT SEEM TO SHOW MUCH FROM THESE STORMS...BUT INDICATES MORE CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY DEVELOPING OVER THE AREA BY EARLY THIS EVENING. LOW CONFIDENCE WITH TIMING OF CONVECTION AT THIS TIME SO WILL NOT MENTION IN THE TAFS. SHOWERS HAVE MOVED EAST OF THE TAF SITES LATE THIS MORNING. CONVECTION MAY LINGER THROUGHOUT THE EVENING AS THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY STALLS ACROSS THE AREA. WINDS WILL GENERALLY BE VARIABLE DUE TO THE MEANDERING OF THE FRONT...BUT MAY GO LIGHT NORTHEAST AT LOCATIONS NORTH OF THE FRONT. LAMP GUIDANCE INDICATING MVFR FOG POSSIBLE AT AGS AND OGB EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. EXTENDED AVIATION OUTLOOK...CHANCE OF MAINLY DIURNAL THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY WHICH MAY PRODUCE BRIEF MVFR/IFR CONDITIONS. && .CAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SC...NONE. GA...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 440 AM EDT FRI JUN 6 2014 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-070845- LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD- MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON- RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON- BAMBERG- 440 AM EDT FRI JUN 6 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE STORMS WILL BE HEAVY RAINFALL. LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
422 PM EDT FRI JUN 6 2014
GAZ040-063-064-SCZ018-025-062115-
COLUMBIA-EDGEFIELD-LINCOLN-MCCORMICK-MCDUFFIE-
422 PM EDT FRI JUN 6 2014
...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF
MCDUFFIE...LINCOLN...COLUMBIA...EDGEFIELD AND MCCORMICK COUNTIES
THROUGH 515 PM EDT...
AT 412 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...22 MILES WEST OF MOUNT
CARMEL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...
MCCORMICK AND LINCOLNTON...
PREPARE NOW FOR THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS...
GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH...
PEA SIZE HAIL...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THUNDERSTORMS POSE A VARIETY OF THREATS TO BOATERS ON LAKE THURMOND.
YOUR BEST COURSE OF ACTION DURING A THUNDERSTORM IS TO SEEK SAFE
HARBOR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE OPEN LAKE WATERS...STAY BELOW
DECK...AND IF POSSIBLE...AWAY FROM UNGROUNDED METAL OBJECTS. THE
STORMS WILL PRODUCE ROUGH WIND AND WAVES ON THE LAKE.
REPORT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY
SHERIFF...OR USE
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.COLUMBIA.GOV TO RELAY
SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS. &&
LAT...LON 3399 8261 3397 8259 3401 8260 3406 8255
3389 8208 3380 8205 3365 8215 3355 8233
3351 8260 3362 8264 3365 8259 3365 8254
3366 8250 3382 8260 3387 8258 3387 8261
3398 8265
TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 296DEG 31KT 3405 8281SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
443 PM EDT FRI JUN 6 2014
GAZ077-062145-
BURKE-
443 PM EDT FRI JUN 6 2014
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF BURKE COUNTY THROUGH
545 PM EDT...
AT 440 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM...10 MILES WEST OF WAYNESBORO...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 30 MPH.
PREPARE NOW FOR THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS...
GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH...
PEA SIZE HAIL...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
REPORT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY
SHERIFF...OR USE
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.COLUMBIA.GOV TO RELAY
SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS. &&
LAT...LON 3292 8178 3295 8184 3294 8188 3292 8196
3291 8208 3303 8228 3319 8216 3296 8168
3291 8176
TIME...MOT...LOC 2041Z 303DEG 24KT 3306 8213SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
530 PM EDT FRI JUN 6 2014
GAZ077-062230-
BURKE-
530 PM EDT FRI JUN 6 2014
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF WESTERN BURKE COUNTY
THROUGH 630 PM EDT...
AT 527 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...NEAR KEYSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
THE STORMS WILL LIKELY BRING WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH AND SMALL
HAIL TO PARTS OF WESTERN BURKE COUNTY.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...
SAINT CLAIR AND GOUGH...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
REPORT LARGE HAIL OR DAMAGING WINDS TO YOUR COUNTY SHERIFF...OR USE
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.COLUMBIA.GOV TO RELAY
SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS. &&
LAT...LON 3282 8230 3283 8232 3293 8228 3308 8230
3322 8224 3327 8226 3294 8193 3292 8195
3291 8209 3288 8212 3282 8214 3280 8219
TIME...MOT...LOC 2127Z 301DEG 22KT 3320 8228SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
636 PM EDT FRI JUN 6 2014
GAZ064-065-SCZ018-025-030-062330-
AIKEN-COLUMBIA-EDGEFIELD-MCCORMICK-RICHMOND-
636 PM EDT FRI JUN 6 2014
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF RICHMOND...
COLUMBIA...EDGEFIELD...MCCORMICK AND AIKEN COUNTIES THROUGH 730 PM
EDT...
AT 631 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM...10 MILES NORTH OF EVANS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
25 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...
GLOVERVILLE...AIKEN...BELVEDERE...CLEARWATER...NORTH AUGUSTA...
AUGUSTA...EVANS AND MARTINEZ...
PREPARE NOW FOR THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS...
GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH...
PEA SIZE HAIL...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THUNDERSTORMS POSE A VARIETY OF THREATS TO BOATERS ON LAKE THURMOND.
YOUR BEST COURSE OF ACTION DURING A THUNDERSTORM IS TO SEEK SAFE
HARBOR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE OPEN LAKE WATERS...STAY BELOW
DECK...AND IF POSSIBLE...AWAY FROM UNGROUNDED METAL OBJECTS.
REPORT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OR FLOODING TO YOUR COUNTY
SHERIFF...OR USE
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.COLUMBIA.GOV TO RELAY
SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS. &&
LAT...LON 3370 8231 3368 8227 3369 8224 3369 8223
3376 8225 3377 8218 3353 8166 3333 8194
3361 8229 3370 8232
TIME...MOT...LOC 2236Z 300DEG 22KT 3364 8214The Columbia radar (KCAE), 76 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:10 UTC.
6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
SCEG reported multiple places with trees down on powerlines southwest of Trenton.
SCEG reported power outages due to trees on powerlines near North Augusta.
Highway Patrol reported trees down near the intersection of Hwy 121 and Daniel Ave.
Trees down on Goose Bay Road and crop damage to corn and wheat fields from microburst winds. EM also reported a tree down on a powerlines on Goose Bay Road.
Trees down on Goose Bay Road and crop damage to corn and wheat fields from microburst winds. EM also reported a tree down on a powerlines on Goose Bay Road.
Resident reported golf ball size hail from the storm.
Electric COOP reported outages due to large limbs on lines just west of Branchville.
An EF0 Snapped off trees about 50 yards into the woods off of Turkey Cut Road southeast of Bamberg. Other scattered trees and large branches were down along and east of hwy 362...mainly on other rural roads.
Residents reported golf ball size hail during the storm.
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 historyThe tornado archive for South Carolina, 2014Warnings in South Carolina, June 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 510852, 510853, 510854, 510851, 510881, 510848, 510855, 510850, 510880.