Daytime heating, a weak upper shortwave and colliding outflow boundaries produced scattered thunderstorms, some of which reached severe limits and produced wind damage.
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Daytime heating, a weak upper shortwave and colliding outflow boundaries produced scattered thunderstorms, some of which reached severe limits and produced wind damage.
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 Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 4, 6:38 PM EST, 19 hours 33 minutes earlier.
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</html>The Columbia radar (KCAE), 77 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:11 UTC.
6 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tree on a power line at the intersection of Penn St and Bauskett St in Edgefield.
Tree down blocking the roadway along Country Club Rd.
SCHP reported tree down along Graham Rd.
SCHP reported roadway blocked by a downed tree along Berley Boland Rd near US Hwy 76.
SCHP reported tree in roadway at the intersection of Parr Rd and 4 Oaks Rd near I-26.
Tree on a power line along Gardner St near US Hwy 1.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2020Every state in 2020This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, June 2020
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: 889608, 889609, 889610, 889611, 889612, 889613.