Scattered to numerous thunderstorms developed in a typical summertime environment during the afternoon hours across southeast South Carolina. These thunderstorms produced damaging wind gusts as well as numerous cloud to ground 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 in a typical summertime environment during the afternoon hours across southeast South Carolina. These thunderstorms produced damaging wind gusts as well as numerous cloud to ground lightning strikes.
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 4, 5:39 PM EST, 21 hours 41 minutes earlier.
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</html>The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 104 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:21 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A social media post reported that lightning struck St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in Downtown Charleston near the corner of King Street and Vanderhorst Street.
Beaufort County dispatch reported that a tree was down at Broad River Boulevard and West K Alston Drive.
Beaufort County Emergency Management reported a tree down on power lines at 16th Street and Old Shell Road. There were also two trees down on a residence on 17th Street.
Beaufort County Emergency Management reported a tree down on the road at Lands End Road and Ephriam Road as well as Lands End Road and Storyteller Road.
Beaufort County dispatch reported that lightning struck a building on Richmond Avenue.
Beaufort County dispatch reported a tree down on Gumtree Road and William Hilton Parkway.
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, July 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: 844640, 844642, 844643, 844644, 844641, 844645.