Daytime heating and a surface trough, along with an approaching weak cold front, produced scattered severe thunderstorms during the late day and evening hours.
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The episode as NWS CAE wrote it up.
Daytime heating and a surface trough, along with an approaching weak cold front, produced scattered severe thunderstorms during the late day and evening hours.
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 Jul 7, 6:49 PM EST, 23 hours 34 minutes earlier.
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</html>The Columbia radar (KCAE), 48 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:23 UTC.
6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Pea size hail reported along US Hwy 178.
Trees and debris in roadway on US Hwy 378 eastbound just east of the Wateree River bridge.
Multiple trees downed near Neeses Hwy and Norway Rd.
Tree and limbs down on power lines.
Heavy rain led to ponding of water on US Hwy 178, Shillings Bridge Rd, and Hwy 4. Portions of Shillings Bridge Rd were nearly impassable.
Power lines down on Walker Gamble Rd. Tree limbs down throughout the area.
Power lines down on Smith St in Turbeville. Tree limbs down throughout the area.
Public reported trees and limbs down on US Hwy 378. One tree fell across a storage shed.
Heavy rain led to street flooding, with 3 to 6 inches of water on Gardenia Rd just east of SC Hwy 3. The road was still passable.
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: 699638, 699630, 699631, 699632, 699628, 699633, 699634, 699636, 699629.