Storms in South Carolina in 2020
Every storm the National Weather Service filed in South Carolina in 2020, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.
South Carolina in 2020 on the map
Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The year
- Events
- 869
- Deaths
- 19
- Injuries
- 105
- Damage
- $125 million
- Episodes
- 158
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.
By kind of event
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thunderstorm Wind | 470 | 2 | 7 | $416,000 |
| Hail | 102 | 1 | 0 | $14,000 |
| Tornado | 74 | 12 | 90 | $123 million |
| Flash Flood | 73 | 0 | 2 | $552,000 |
| Strong Wind | 44 | 0 | 2 | $35,000 |
| Coastal Flood | 41 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 20 | 0 | 0 | $14,000 |
| Lightning | 11 | 0 | 1 | $30,000 |
| Tropical Storm | 9 | 0 | 1 | $620,000 |
| Winter Weather | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Rain | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Rip Current | 5 | 4 | 2 | |
| Heavy Snow | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Funnel Cloud | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tropical Depression | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Storm Surge/Tide | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Every episode, month by month
January 2020
- Damaging Wind and Strong Wind in South Carolina, January 3, 2020
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, January 11, 2020
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, January 11 to 13, 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, January 12, 2020
- Flood in South Carolina, January 13, 2020
- Tornado in South Carolina, January 13, 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, January 24, 2020
- Winter Weather in South Carolina, January 31, 2020
February 2020
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in South Carolina, February 6 to 7, 2020
- Damaging Winds and Strong Wind in South Carolina, February 6 to 7, 2020
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, February 6, 2020
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, February 6 to 7, 2020
- Winter Weather in South Carolina, February 8, 2020
- Heavy Snow in South Carolina, February 8, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, February 13, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, February 13, 2020
March 2020
- Strong Wind in South Carolina, March 6, 2020
- Hail and Lightning Strike in South Carolina, March 24, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, March 31, 2020
April 2020
- Hail in South Carolina, April 6, 2020
- Hail in South Carolina, April 7, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, April 9, 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, April 9, 2020
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, April 13, 2020
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, April 13, 2020
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, April 13, 2020
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, April 13, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, April 19, 2020
- Strong Wind in South Carolina, April 23, 2020
- Tornado and Hail in South Carolina, April 25, 2020
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, April 29, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, April 30, 2020
May 2020
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 4 to 5, 2020
- Tornado and Hail in South Carolina, May 5, 2020
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Carolina, May 5, 2020
- Hail in South Carolina, May 5, 2020
- Flash Flooding and Flood in South Carolina, May 20 to 21, 2020
- Tornado and Hail in South Carolina, May 20, 2020
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Carolina, May 22, 2020
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 22, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 22, 2020
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 22, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 22 to 23, 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 24, 2020
- Flash Flood and Hail in South Carolina, May 24, 2020
- Flash Flood and Flooding in South Carolina, May 27, 2020
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 28 to 29, 2020
- Flash Flood in South Carolina, May 28, 2020
- Flash Flooding and Hail in South Carolina, May 28, 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 28, 2020
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in South Carolina, May 29, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 29, 2020
- Flood in South Carolina, May 29, 2020
- Tropical Depression in South Carolina, May 30, 2020
June 2020
- Hail in South Carolina, June 4, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 5, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 9, 2020
- Tornado in South Carolina, June 10, 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 12, 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 14, 2020
- Rip Current in South Carolina, June 19 to 20, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 19, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 20, 2020
- Hail in South Carolina, June 20, 2020
- Hail in South Carolina, June 20, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 21, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 23, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 23, 2020
- Flash Flooding in South Carolina, June 24, 2020
- Hail in South Carolina, June 25, 2020
- Rip Current in South Carolina, June 26, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 27, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 27, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 28, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 28, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 29, 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 29, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 30, 2020
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 30, 2020
July 2020
- Flash Flood and Heavy Rain in South Carolina, July 1, 2020
- Flash Flooding and Heavy Rain in South Carolina, July 6 to 8, 2020
- Flood in South Carolina, July 7 to 9, 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 7, 2020
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 10, 2020
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 13, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 18, 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 20, 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 20, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 21, 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 24, 2020
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 24, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 25, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 25, 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 28, 2020
- Flash Flooding and Heavy Rain in South Carolina, July 29, 2020
August 2020
- Hail in South Carolina, August 2, 2020
- Tropical Storm in South Carolina, August 3, 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, August 3, 2020
- Tornado and Storm Surge in South Carolina, August 3 to 4, 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, August 5, 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, August 5, 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, August 5, 2020
- Flash Flooding and Hail in South Carolina, August 6, 2020
- Hail in South Carolina, August 6, 2020
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in South Carolina, August 7, 2020
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, August 7, 2020
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in South Carolina, August 9, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 9, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 10, 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, August 11, 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, August 12, 2020
- Hail in South Carolina, August 13, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 13, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 14, 2020
- Flash Flood in South Carolina, August 15, 2020
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, August 18, 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, August 19, 2020
- Hail in South Carolina, August 19, 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, August 21, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 24, 2020
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in South Carolina, August 26, 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, August 29, 2020
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in South Carolina, August 30, 2020
September 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, September 5, 2020
- Flash Flood in South Carolina, September 9, 2020
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, September 11, 2020
- Rip Current in South Carolina, September 13, 2020
- Coastal Flood in South Carolina, September 15, 2020
- Coastal Flood in South Carolina, September 15 to 16, 2020
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in South Carolina, September 16 to 18, 2020
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, September 17, 2020
- Strong Wind in South Carolina, September 17, 2020
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, September 17, 2020
- Tornadoes in South Carolina, September 17, 2020
- Rip Current in South Carolina, September 18, 2020
- Coastal Flood in South Carolina, September 19 to 21, 2020
- Tornado in South Carolina, September 25, 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, September 25, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, September 29, 2020
October 2020
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, October 11, 2020
- Tornadoes in South Carolina, October 11, 2020
- Coastal Flood in South Carolina, October 18, 2020
- Tropical Storm and Strong Wind in South Carolina, October 29, 2020
- Strong Wind in South Carolina, October 29, 2020
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, October 29, 2020
November 2020
- Flash Flood in South Carolina, November 11, 2020
- Flash Flood and Flood in South Carolina, November 12, 2020
- Flash Flood in South Carolina, November 12, 2020
- Strong Wind in South Carolina, November 12, 2020
- Coastal Flood in South Carolina, November 15, 2020
- Flash Flood in South Carolina, November 26, 2020
- Strong Wind in South Carolina, November 30, 2020
December 2020
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Sources
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 2026-09-24.