Scattered thunderstorms developed along the sea breeze throughout the afternoon. A few of these thunderstorms produced damaging wind gusts and lightning strikes to structures.
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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 along the sea breeze throughout the afternoon. A few of these thunderstorms produced damaging wind gusts and lightning strikes to structures.
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 9, 6:58 PM EST, 8 hours 42 minutes earlier.
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</html>The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 103 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:39 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A residential structure fire started by lightning was reported on Old Summer House Road.
A report of tree limbs down averaging 5 to 6 inches in diameter was received via Twitter.
A lightning strike was suspected in causing a condo fire on Ashley Villa Circle.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported 2 trees down. One was down on Tillman Road at Tarboro Road and the other was down near the intersection of Smiths Crossing and Catfish Circle.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down in the roadway near the intersection of Highway 321 and Locked Road.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2017Every state in 2017This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, July 2017
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: 714826, 714815, 714827, 714816, 714818.