Scattered to numerous thunderstorms developed along the coast in the afternoon hours, producing numerous lightning strikes.
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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 to numerous thunderstorms developed along the coast in the afternoon hours, producing numerous lightning strikes.
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 76 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:54 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Two outdoor sheds at two different locations in Ravenel caught fire due to lightning strikes.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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