The combination of strong heating and deep moisture between low pressure inland and high pressure offshore led to severe thunderstorms 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.
The combination of strong heating and deep moisture between low pressure inland and high pressure offshore led to severe thunderstorms 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 Aug 7, 5:58 PM EST, 21 hours 45 minutes earlier.
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</html>The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 123 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:41 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
The Charleston County 911 Call Center reported a tree down on Twin Oaks Lane.
Broadcast media relayed a report of quarter size hail on Isle of Palms.
The Charleston County 911 Call Center reported a tree down at the intersection of 4th Avenue and Merritt Boulevard.
Broadcast media relayed a report via social media of a tree down on Red Tide Road.
The Isle of Palms Police Department reported a tree down on the corner of 25th Avenue and Cameron Boulevard.
Broadcast media shared a picture on social media of hail as large as a ping pong ball.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2019Every state in 2019This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, August 2019
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: 849499, 849497, 849500, 849501, 849502, 849498.