Isolated thunderstorms developed in the afternoon hours along the sea breeze and ahead of a cold front. A couple of thunderstorms became strong enough to produce damaging wind gusts.
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The episode as NWS CHS wrote it up.
Isolated thunderstorms developed in the afternoon hours along the sea breeze and ahead of a cold front. A couple of thunderstorms became strong enough to produce damaging wind gusts.
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 102 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:22 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A report was received via social media of a tree knocked down across the road at 6th Avenue and Grove Street.
Local broadcast media relayed reports of several trees uprooted or broken off in the Mount Pleasant area. Also, a large limb was blown down on a car in the Creekside neighborhood.
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