South Carolina, 2017

High Wind in South Carolina, April 6, 2017

April 6, 2017 · NWS CAE · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Windy conditions were experienced behind a cold frontal passage, with a strong area of low pressure north of the region.

The toll

Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
1

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS CAE wrote it up.

Windy conditions were experienced behind a cold frontal passage, with a strong area of low pressure north of the region.

What forecasters said that day

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 Apr 5, 6:22 PM EST, 21 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 5, 6:22 PM EST, 21 hours 58 minutes before
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Event by event

1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Lancaster

When
April 6, 4:20 PM EST
Where
Lancaster forecast zone
Measured
50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
Deaths
1 direct, 0 indirect
Reported by
Fire Department/Rescue

Lancaster Fire Dept reported a tree fell on a house on Pageland Hwy, 8 miles NE of Elgin, killing a 66 year old female inside.

The people who died

As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.

EventDateAgeSexWhereKind
High Wind, Lancaster2017-04-0666FemalePermanent HomeDirect

What these are

High Wind
Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in South Carolina in 2017Every state in 2017This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, April 2017

Sources

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: 696080.