A strong line of thunderstorms developed in a hot and humid airmass within a lee trough situated inland. The line of thunderstorms progressed eastward through late afternoon and early evening hours and produced damaging wind gusts across southeast South Carolina.
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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.
A strong line of thunderstorms developed in a hot and humid airmass within a lee trough situated inland. The line of thunderstorms progressed eastward through late afternoon and early evening hours and produced damaging wind gusts across southeast South Carolina.
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 6, 3:24 PM EST, 22 minutes earlier.
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</html>SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
416 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2016
GAZ087-088-062045-
SCREVEN GA-JENKINS GA-
416 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2016
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF JENKINS AND SCREVEN
COUNTIES UNTIL 445 PM EDT...
AT 416 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER HERNDON...OR 8 MILES WEST OF MILLEN...MOVING
EAST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...STRONG WINDS 45 TO 55 MPH.
IMPACT...EXPECT MINOR DAMAGE TO TREE LIMBS AND BLOWING AROUND OF
LIGHT...UNSECURED OBJECTS.
SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
MILLEN...BUTTS...ROCKY FORD...HERNDON...SCARBORO...PERKINS AND EMMALANE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY. BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV
STATIONS AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT. THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE
LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES SUDDENLY...SOMETIMES
WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO ACT QUICKLY IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED
OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.
&&
LAT...LON 3289 8211 3292 8208 3292 8195 3295 8186
3295 8182 3291 8176 3295 8170 3265 8181
3265 8184 3261 8197 3262 8202 3266 8208
3281 8215
TIME...MOT...LOC 2016Z 277DEG 24KT 3284 8209The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 15 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:43 UTC.
35 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down at the intersection of John F Drive and Two Sisters Ferry Road.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down at the intersection of Yemassee Highway and Chanel Drive.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down at the intersection of Burnell Road and Turner Expressway.
Allendale County dispatch reported a tree down across Bull Pond Road.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down at the railroad tracks on Lodge Highway caused by the gust front ahead of a line of thunderstorms.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down at the intersection of Yemassee Highway and Possum Corner Road.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway on Highway 64 near the intersection with Bonnie Doone Road.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down at the intersection of Cottageville Hhighway and Round O Road.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway on Sand Hills Road in Tillman.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway on Wagon Branch Loop Road.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down at the intersection of Timber Bay Drive and Rehoboth Road.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway on Sisters Ferry Road near McCormack Avenue.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway on Highway 17A near the Edisto River.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down in the 2300 block of McDanieltown Road and Good Hope Landing Lane.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway on Church Road.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway at Mill Stone Landing.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down at the intersection of Highway 17 and Clubhouse Road.
Colleton County dispatch reported a tree down in the 1400 block of Penny Creek Road.
The public reported numerous trees down from a thunderstorm on Bruce K Smalls Drive.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down at the intersection of Delemar Highway and Beech Hill Road.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway on Delemar Highway near the intersection with Carolinian Drive.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway on Bacons Bridge Road near the intersection with Dorchester Road.
The public reported a tree down on Highway 61 near O'Sullivan Lane. Report received via Twitter.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported two trees down on Harrison Road near Madison Avenue and Jefferson Lane.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported two trees down on Alma Drive near the intersection with Ladson Road.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down at the intersection of Dorchester Road and Middleton Boulevard.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway on Dorchester Road near Interstate 526.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down at the intersection of Club Course Drive and E Fairway Woods Circle.
Numerous reports received through social media of a very large tree down across Interstate 526 at International Boulevard.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway on Highway 174 near Blue House Lane.
A Charleston Naval Weapons Station employee reported a large tree down on Red Banks Road near Wilkinson Way.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway in the 8300 block of Palmetto Road.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported two trees down on Highway 41 between Huger and Jamestown.
A tree was reported down in front of St. Matthews Church along King Street. The report was received via social media.
The public reported a tree down on a home on Canterbury Drive with minimal damage. The tree was also leaning on power lines.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2016Every state in 2016This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, July 2016
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: 651167, 651168, 651169, 651170, 651956, 651172, 651173, 651174, 651960, 651961, 651175, 651964, 651176, 651177, 651965, 651967, 651184, 651187, 651180, 651179, 651189, 651190, 651178, 651191, 651192, 651193, 651194, 651185, 651183, 651195, 651182, 651196, 651197, 651188, 651186.